Rev. Ben Daniel Sermon April 19, 2009 from Foothill Presbyterian Church on Vimeo.
Monthly Archive for April, 2009
I’m taking a break from my blog to work on some other writing projects, but here is my sermon for Easter Sunday, 2009. He is risen indeed!
Easter Sermon Foothill Presbyterian Church from Foothill Presbyterian Church on Vimeo.
Here’s the sermon I preached on April 5, 2009. The text was the Passion narrative found in Mark’s Gospel.
In Support of Amendment 08-B
This column also ran on UPI’s Religion and Spirituality Forum.
On April 4, 2009 the Presbytery of San José voted 84-81 in favor of “Amendment 08-B,” a bit of ecclesiastical legislation that, if adopted by a majority of the 174 Presbyteries, or regional governing bodies, in the Presbyterian Church (USA), will lift the absolute and universal ban on the ordination of Gays and Lesbians in the largest Presbyterian body in the United States. I was one of sixteen presbyters chosen to speak on the amendment. Each of us had two minutes to speak our minds. Here’s what I said:
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