“The hope for Isaiah’s people is not a single plant growing, but a new branch for that moment sprouting from the stump of a history of faithfulness, devotion, commitment, and peace. A stump.”
a sermon preached to the Presbyterian United Church of Christ, Saratoga Springs, NY

In such trying times as we are found, in the midst of so much noise that amounts to little information, love is what the John, the gospel writer, says Jesus used to cut through the noise of his moment, the noise of the moment of the congregation John led, and the noise of the church in the United States for such a time as this.