Epiphany 7c Sermon
Epiphany 7c St. Alfred's Episcopal Church Palm Harbor, FL Feb. 23, 2025 The Rev. Dale C. Hathaway Attention Having heard the words that we have just read from scripture, I wonder what the right reaction is? We might just reflect that all those passages sure sound familiar. “I’ve heard those before.” It would be entirely appropriate to have some questions. A few years ago, the dean of Harvard graduate school of Education began speaking and writing about questions that really matter. Wait, what? I wonder? What truly matters? How can I help? Over 100 years ago GK Chesterton wrote, the Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. For much of what we read in the Bible, as well as in the later Christian tradition, I think the best response we can make is to ask questions. Some of you have heard me tell the story about a young Jewish student living in a remote village centuries ago, shouting at the top of his lungs as he ran...