Month: February 2024

Matthew 5:14 – 16 (Note: Another past homily from St. Stephen, delivered on July 19, 2020) Our homily today will be connected to that offered last Sunday (The account of Jesus healing the demoniac and allowing the demons to inhabit a herd of pigs who rushed headlong to their...

Matthew 9:1-8 (A homily delivered at St. Stephen July 24, 2022. ) When we were at Columbia Seminary (56 years ago), an old, elaborate pulpit stood in the chapel. At some time, each student was called upon to preach behind it. On the back of that pulpit, only for...

No one needs to be told that there are many, many strange, even bizarre things going on in our world today. The traditional moral and spiritual values which most people have held dear for generations have been eroded and attacked as outmoded and irrelevant. Even with religious communities and...