Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman 4 days ago 2 min Minds Open to Understanding Ignorance and minds opened to understanding, the two poles of consciousness described in our lessons for this Sunday. In ignorance we...
Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman Mar 26 2 min Lose Something of Yourself and then Find Something of the Divine Dear Friends, This Sunday we celebrate Palm Sunday: The Sunday of the Passion. This service begins a Holy Week of observances that invite...
Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman Mar 12 3 min The Greatest in God's Kingdom is the One who Serves the Most This weekend is a momentous weekend for All Saints, as our Pastoral Fellow, Heather Sisk is scheduled to be ordained as a Deacon in our...
Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman Mar 5 3 min The Wisdom of this World is Foolishness to God A house divided cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln used these words in 1858 to address the increasingly problematic issue of slavery in the...
Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman Feb 26 2 min Forgiveness leads to a Healing Love About 40 years ago when I was newly ordained, a disheveled young man arrived at my office door. He wanted to tell me his theology. He...
Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman Feb 19 3 min We find God in the Loving Response of Humans After the fall of the Jerusalem Temple in AD 70, Judaism had to reimagine and in a sense reinvent itself as its center had suddenly...
Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman Feb 12 2 min We are Called to Begin the Inward Work This Sunday the Church will observe the last Sunday of Epiphany. It has been a season of manifestations of Jesus’ power to heal and cast...
Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman Feb 4 2 min The Sacred Core of our Identity “In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.” Mark 1:35 Where do you...
Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman Jan 29 2 min He taught as one having authority He taught as one having authority. We certainly have a lot of ambivalence about authority. It has all too often been used to dominate...
Rev. Dr. Steven Yagerman Jan 22 3 min Seeing Anew "without memory or desire" Sometimes we need a new pair of glasses or at least it is helpful to lose the ones we have. Not because the old glasses aren’t working,...