Fifty miles south of Baghdad lie the ruins of the city of Babylon - Babylon the great. Six hundred years before Christ, the rulers of...

In the Name… An engineer was developing a high speed plane but, in testing, the wings kept falling off. An old rabbi friend of his heard...

By ancient tradition, no sermon is preached on Palm Sunday. Our usual liturgy consists of the cheerful Palm Procession followed by the...

In the Name... I was recently thinking that in Lent we should only eat turtle soup and escargots. No 'fast' food. I knew I should have...

In the Name.... One winter Sunday, a young Scottish minister had to make an afternoon visit to a farm on the far side of a loch. Noting...

In the Name... A preacher started his sermon denouncing Hollywood and several people said "Amen." Then, he preached against Wall Street...

In the Name... The story is told of a young curate who was sent to a parish with an insufferable rector. After serving there a couple of...

In the Name... After Sunday School, a young boy was asked by his parents what he had learned for Lent. Two things, he said. Give alms...

In the Name... I understand that doctors have now discovered that there is a gene for shyness. Yes. They would have found it sooner,...

In the Name… A fellow trying to become a vegetarian was finding it very difficult. Unable to resist temptation, he went to a restaurant...

EPIPHANY 3, January 24th, 2021 In the Name.. A few years ago, on the Sunday when this text was appointed, a preacher got into his pulpit...

In the Name.... Did you know that the Easter Bunny is real? I’m serious. In the museum of the University of Wisconsin you can see, with...

In the Name... Over the years, I think I have baptized children with every possible variation on the spelling of “Caitlyn” and lots of...

In the Name... I've always enjoyed the New Yorker cartoon which portrays the traditional manger scene bathed in light from the star,...

In the Name... Well, Merry Christmas. Yes, it is the Third Day of the Christmas Season – so, watch out for French Hens. Today, though,...

In the Name... And may we all join in the prayer of Tiny Tim, "God bless us, every one." Now, Tiny Tim is not to be found in the Bible,...

In the Name... A little boy returned from Sunday School to tell his parents what he had learned about the first Christmas. “Santa Claus...

In the Name… Two brothers owned a dry cleaners and, on Christmas Eve, one of them found a $100 bill in a customer’s trouser pocket. At...

In the Name... There are times when truth is stranger than fiction. I was recently reading about some Federal policies from the 1950’s...

In the Name... A man was arrested and brought before the Judge. "Now then" the Judge asked, "what is the charge against this man?" The...