Resources

This page is where I link to essays, sermons and other things that I find interesting.  I’m lucky to have such cool friends, and happy to share some of their work here.

Essays

by Joseph Morgan Smith

• “Preaching as Storytelling: Or, How Not to Apply the Bible to Your Life” (Catapult Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 14, July 2010)
• “Fasting to Hear” (Catapult Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 21, November 2010)
• “Nature and Spirit in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas” (Submitted for the course “Aquinas and Thomism,” with Dr. Simon Oliver, toward an MA in Systematic and Philosophical Theology from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at The University of Nottingham, March 2012).

by Ryan P. Snuffer

• “Chocolate is a Sin” (April, 2005)
• “Natural Asylum” (Catapult Magazine Vol. 4, No. 21, Nov 2005)
• “God’s Self-Portrait” (2006)
• “Hat-head” (Catapult Magazine Vol. 5, No. 4, Feb 2006)
• “The 67^th Book” (Catapult Magazine Vol. 5, No. 7, April 2006)
• “Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee” (Catapult Magazine Vol. 5, No. 24, Dec 2006)
• “Biblical Principles of Ecology” (2007)
• “Do Animals Have Intrinsic Value?” (2007)
• “Romans 8 and God’s Promise of Love” (2007)
• “Steps to a Greener Life” (2007)
• “The Necessity of God From Efficient Cause” (2007)
• “A Reason to Smile” (Catapult Magazine Vol. 6, No. 13, June 2007)
• “Everyone is an Artist” (Aug 2007)
• “There is No Room for Racism in The Church” (Aug 2007)
• “Running from Bees” (Oct 2007)
• “The Implications of Evil” (Oct 2007)
• “The Necessity of God From Efficient Cause, Part 2: The Logic of Finite Time” (Oct 2007)
• “The Sliding Scale between Theism and Agnosticism” (Oct 2007)
• “Losing My Convictions” (Catapult Magazine Vol. 6, No. 20, Nov 2007)
• “Listening to the Spoken Word” (2008)
• “Who Needs a Creed?” (2008)
• “Is There Life Before Death?” (Aug 2008)
• “Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee, Part 2” (2009)

by Stephen Mitchell

• “Wrestling with ‘Why?’” (Catapult Magazine Vol. 3, No. 9, April 2004)
• “The Fellowship of the Guilty” (Catapult Magazine Vol. 4, No. 14, July 2005)
• “The Tenor of a Mind” (Catapult Magazine Vol. 7, No. 18, Oct 2008)

Sermons

by Joseph Morgan-Smith

• And That Changes Everything (Acts 4:32-35) [text]
• Beauty & Affliction (Romans 8:18-30) [text]
• Wisdom in a Traffic Light [text]
• A Strange Messiah (Mark 8:27-38) 
• Revealing Mistaken Identity (Epiphany Sunday, Matthew 2)
• The Secret of the Easy Yoke (Matthew 11:28-30)
• God Forsaken? (Matthew 27:45-46)
• A Word that Transforms the World (John 1:1-18) [text]
• Two Compromised Men: A Lenten Reflection (2 Kings 5) [text]
• Of Exile and Resurrection (Ezekiel 37) [text]
• A Sermon of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) [text]
• The Time has Come: An Epiphany Reflection (Mark 1:14-15) [text]
• Easter Realism (John 20:19-31) [text]

by Rev. Wanda Childs

• First Sunday in Advent, 2010 [text]
• Second Sunday in Advent, 2010 [text]
• Third Sunday in Advent, 2010 [text]
• Fourth Sunday in Advent, 2010 [text]
• The Baptism of Our Lord Sunday, 2011 [text]
• Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany, 2011 [text]
• Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany, 2011 [text]
• Ash Wednesday, 2011 [text]
• Pentecost, 2011 [text]