Sermons -- 2003-04 Academic Year

Dean Titus Presler

Easter Weekend 04 -- Double Exposure on Good Friday and Howdy in the Garden on Easter Sunday

Jesus' Presentation and Ours -- delivered in Christ Chapel at the beginning of spring semester 2004

Faith from the Watchtower -- delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Daryl Hay, Class of 2003

Frontier Mission Formation -- delivered at the annual convention of the Diocese of Western Kansas in October 2003

Marticulation Sermon -- "Mission Toward Unity" -- at the opening of the 2003-04 academic year

The Greatest? -- at the Church of the Ascension, Dallas, in September 2003

It's About Deciding -- delivered in Christ Chapel on the first day of the U.S. war on Iraq

The Kiss of Mission -- at the Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, in February 2003

Marticulation Sermon -- "Ministry in Call and Crisis" -- at the opening of the 2002-03 academic year

Sermon -- "Jesus is Our Peace" -- on Sept. 11, 2002, during a Eucharist of Peace in Christ Chapel, in addition to a selection of the dean's sermons at Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass., during the weeks following the tragedies of last year.

Commencement 2004 sermon by the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

Professor Alan Gregory on Sophie and The Happy Vampire and Myth and England and Mr. Pym and The Short History and Night, the 2003 ETSS commencement sermon

Professor Flora Keshgegian on Imagine a Life Beyond Imagining and All Yoked Together with Differences Intact and trusting in faith and not duct tape

The Rev. Jane Butterfield, mission personnel officer of the Episcopal Church, on "A Body Beyond Fear"

The Rev. Merrill Wade, rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Austin, on "You don't know God and God don't know you"

Professor Paul Barton on Leadership, Grumbling and Prophecying and Mission in the Interstices of Life

Professor William Seth Adams on the Word that the LORD has not spoken, a cry from the heart about the folly of an unprecedented war. A reflection on the Episcopal Church the Sunday after the close of General Convention 2003. God's Remembrance -- an All Saints' Day musing. A Journey Toward the Light -- on Ash Wednesday 2004. A sermon on John and Charles Wesley.

Professor Jane Lancaster Patterson, Class of 1993, on Fishing the Deep Waters

Professor Wayne Menking, LSPS Director, on "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" and "Dominoes"

The Reverend Michael Athey, Class of 1997, on "Standing with Friends"

Professor Charles James Cook on "Authenticity" and on "Forgiveness"

Professor Michael Floyd on Jesus the Healer and on the feast day of Absalom Jones

The Rev. Kelly Koonce, Class of 2002 from the Diocese of Texas, on "A Difficult Teaching," tieing the interconnectivity shown in the Great Blackout of 2003 with the post-General Convention 2003 church.

The Rev. Anne Knight Hoey, Class of 1988, a sermon delivered at St. Michael's Church, Austin, during the April 12, 2003, funeral of the Rev. Dr. Frank Doremus, professor emeritus of pastoral theology

The Rt. Rev'd Munawar (Mano) Rumalshah, General Secretary of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and Bishop of Peshawar in the Church of Pakistan, Sermon during the Installation of Titus Leonard Presler as Dean and President of ETSS on "Shooting for the Stars"

The Rev. Tamara Newell, assisting priest at Christ Church in Mexico City, a first Sunday of Advent sermon.

Professor Roger Paynter at the seminary Commencement 2002

Class of 2004 Sermons

Richard Nelson, Class of 2004 from the Diocese of Wyoming (soon, Northwest Texas), "Let Us Choose the Bones"

Torey Lightcap, Class of 2004 from the Diocese of Colorado, "Wake Up, Wake Up for Jesus"

Lillian Hyde, Class of 2004 from the Diocese of Mississippi, on "not looking for a nice Jesus."

Judith Lund, Class of 2004 from the Diocese of Arkansas, on "Is God infinitely patient?"

James Flowers, Class of 2004 from the Diocese of Central Gulf Coast, on "Led Into Vulnerability."

Donna Hall, Class of 2004 from the Diocese of Southeast Florida, on "All Things are Possible for God"

Steve Thomason, M.D., Class of 2004 from the Diocese of Arkansas, on "Tectonic Plates and Mirrors"

Shari Davis, Ph.D., Class of 2004, on "But That's the Way We Have Always Done It"

The Ven. Canon Masalakulangwa Mabula, Class of 2004 from Tanzania, on "A Sense of What is Vital" and "Power and Greatness" and "I do not cease to give thanks for you" and "The Spiritual Gentry of Peacemakers"