Sermons by members of the ETSS Community -- 2004-05 Academic Year

ETSS & LSPS Faculty and Staff

Dean Titus Presler on Called to Mission, Called to Difference -- the sermon Dean Presler presented at the June 2005 Commencement of Seabury Western Theological Seminary. Christ Chapel sermon on It's About Presence. Compare this sermon on the Feast of the Presentation with his 2004 sermon on the same feast day.

The Rev. Dr. Alan P.R. Gregory, Associate Professor of Church History and Academic Dean, on Birth

The Rev. Dr. Javier Alanís, LSPS Assistant Professor of Theology, Culture and Mission, on In the Belly of the Whale

The Rev. Dr. Paul Barton, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, on Crossing Over Borders

The Rev. Dr. Susan Dolan-Henderson, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Moral Theology, on Waiting.

Dr. Steven Bishop, Lecturer in Old Testament, on Listen Closely to the Sound

The Rev. Charles James Cook '74, Professor of Pastoral Theology, on We Can Not Do This Alone and on Fear and Hope

The Rev. Dr. Ray Pickett, LSPS Associate Professor of New Testament and Associate Academic Dean, on the ministries of Michael and April Floyd and on "John 14: 6-14-- The Way as Truth and Life."

Joseph Liro, Director of Admissions and Director of Church and Alumni/ae Relations, on A Yearning to Get Right to the Heart of Things

The Rev. Dr. William Seth Adams, Professor of Liturgics and Anglican Studies, honoring the one year anniversary of the death of Professor-emeritus Will Spong -- and, his sermon on The Woman Caught in Adultery.

The Rev. Jane L. Patterson, Interim Director of Field Education, on the process of our justification

The Rev. Dr. Wayne Menking, Director of the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest, on the Beatitudes

The Rev. Dr. Maggie Izutsu, Director of the Masters Programs in Pastoral Ministry and Counseling & Lecturer in World Religions and Christianity, on "What's in a Word?"

Dr. Anthony D. Baker, Interim Lecturer in Theology, on "Prophetic Panic"

The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Associate Professor of New Testament, on What Do We See on All Saints Day?

The Rev. Dr. Eliseo Pérez-Alvarez, LSPS Associate Professor of Latino Theology and Mission, on Re-mapping La Frontera

Members of the wider seminary community

The Most Rev. Frank Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, on Reconciling, Restoring, Healing and Making All Things Whole, a sermon presented during the winter meeting of the Executive Council at St. David's Episcopal Church, Austin.

The Rev. Beth Marie Halvorsen, of the Lutheran Shepherd of the Hills Church, on the many different ways to approach scripture

Ross Kane, a 2005 Mission Personnel Orientation staffer at ETSS during January, on William Wilberforce

The Rev. Robert Blackwell, newly-commissioned missionary who took part in the 2005 Mission Personnel Orientation at ETSS during January, on The Journey

The Rev. Dr. Theodore Wardlaw, President and Professsor of Homiletics, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, on "Remembering Our Language."

The Rev. John Lane Denson '54, of the Diocese of Tennessee, on "Pay Attention."

The Rev. Anne Knight Hoey '88, Associate Rector, St. Michael's Church, Austin, on "... not the righteous, but the sinners."

Beverly Williams-Hawkins, LSPS '98, on "I Beg To Differ."

Class of 2005 Sermons

The Rev. Hunt Priest, Diocese of Atlanta, on the Necessity of Speaking the Truth

Brent Owens, Diocese of Southeast Florida, on Jesus call us to a radical reversal of what it means to be great

Martha Stebbins, Diocese of North Carolina, on The Road to Emmaus

Roger Joslin, Diocese of Arkansas, on the Presence of Being

James Trimble, Diocese of Kentucky, on Transformed by Story

John Lee III, of the United Methodist Southwest Texas Conference, on Be Ready

The Rev. Robert Goolsby, Diocese of Southeast Florida, on Good for Nicodemus

Carol Ross Petty, Diocese of Texas, on Yes. What a Powerful Word

Reid Morgan, Diocese of West Missouri, on "What Does the Lord Require of Us?"

Jim Popham, Diocese of Louisiana, on "Sit ... Stay"

Jeffrey "Bear" Gibson, Diocese of Central Gulf Coast, on The Paradox of the Beatitudes and Paul's 1st Letter to the Corinthians

Pamela Brouker, ELCA Southwest Texas Synod, on Listen to the Story.

Valerie Minton Webster, Diocese of Montana, on Preparing the Way of the Lord -- A Difficult but Rewarding Vocation

The Rev. Dan Tantimonaco, Diocese of Southeast Florida, on ... in the meantime

Jeff Garner, Diocese of Alabama, on Faithfully following Christ ... catching people along the way!

Lane Skyles on Free at Last

Cristopher Robinson, Diocese of El Camino Real, on "Wrestling with the Angels"

Jo Popham, Diocese of Louisiana, on One TODAY at a Time

Annie Bates, Diocese of Western Louisiana, on Gratitude

Sam Brannon, ELCA Southwest Texas Synod, on Being Right in the Middle of It All

John Bedingfield, Diocese of Texas, on Thanks, Amos

The Rev. Celia Ellery, Diocese of Northwest Texas, on Rejoicing over One Sinner who Repents

Cass Strotheide, Diocese of Colorado, on Humility and Pride

Stephanie Swinnea, Diocese of Oklahoma, on A Chasm of Silence