Maria Gwyn McDowell
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The Good King?
The violence we carry within us, the violence with which we respond to those around us, the violence on which our nation and world is built, all is judged in this story. Our hope lies not in a God who… Continue reading
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Shouting at Jesus: The Canaanite Woman
We will, at various times in our lives, stand either in the place of the woman or Jesus and his disciples. Sometimes, we will insist on being heard, we will refuse to be content with crumbs, we will persistently point… Continue reading
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Conjugal What Exactly?
This is the question that matters: is sexual congress generative of more than simply tiny humans? Avoiding this question simply gets the conversation nowhere at all. Traditionalists are convinced that the only good of sex is its procreative possibility (a… Continue reading
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By Our Scars We Heal: A Sermon for the 2nd week of Easter
We are our bodies, we are our relationships, and every body and every relationship is where and how we love one another, how we join with Jesus Christ, who trampled down death by death so that we could become to… Continue reading
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Arcing Our Lives: A sermon for the sixth week after Epiphany
We are arrows in the quiver of God, shot forth to arc towards justice, mercy, peace, and love. The arc of the universe does not bend itself towards justice. We bend it. We are the universe into which God in… Continue reading
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Dissenters, Depart!
Contemporary Orthodoxy appears to have very little capacity to handle disagreement. Declaring tout court that non-Orthodox have nothing to contribute to Orthodoxy only underscores the insistence on conformity and the silencing of disagreement which is currently commonplace within Orthodoxy. The… Continue reading
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Who is worthy to receive?
What all Christians — Catholic, Lutheran or Reformed, and Orthodox — appear to share is this: worthiness precedes reception of Christ. This is true regardless of whether Christ is made present in bread and wine through an act of consecration… Continue reading
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The Gospel According to Kaepernick
It is bad enough to be reminded that we sing allegiance to a nation built on the death of indigenous peoples, the slavery of black and brown bodies. It is far worse to be reminded of this by a black… Continue reading
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Choose, Francis: Incarnation or Imago Dei?
In other words, to believe that any person cannot stand *in persona Christi* by virtue of their *body* is to deny either the full em*bodi*ment of God in the incarnation, or the full humanity of the body in question. No… Continue reading
