Sermons by members of the ETSS & LSPS Community

2007-08 Academic Year

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ETSS & LSPS Faculty and Staff

The Very Rev. Douglas Travis, Dean and President, on Christian Leadership --

The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Associate Professor of New Testament, on Go! Git! And Don't Sin Again. --

Dr. Anthony Baker, Assistant Professor of Theology, on empty our pockets with Christ -- "The Blessing of Belief" -- the ordination sermon for the Rev. Kenneth Malcolm, Class of 2007 --

The Rev. Kenneth Malcolm, Director of Admissions, on "Come Down from the Mountain" --

Dr. Nathan Jennings, Assistant Professor of Liturgics and Anglican Studies, on Ash Wednesday --

Dr. Steven Bishop, Assistant Professor of Old Testament, on "Lament, Do Not Be Silent" -- the ordination sermon for the Rev. Kevin Schubert, Class of 2007 --

The Rev. Charles James Cook, Professor of Pastoral Theology, on Looks Like Heaven to Me! -- Feast of Ordinary Holiness -- "Is That All There Is?" --

The Rev. Jaime Case, Executive Director Province VII Center for Hispanic Ministries and Diocese of Texas Canon for Multicultural Ministry, on What I Believe --

The Rev. Dr. Raymond Pickett, Associate Professor of New Testament at LSPS, on Zachaeus --

Rev. Kathleen Russell, Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology, on lamenting is only a starting place --

Rev. Dr. Wayne Menking, Director of LSPS, on with God all things are possible --

The Rev. Dr. Alan Gregory, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Church History, on Leaving Blank --

The Rev. Robert Karli, Visiting Instructor LSPS, on "The Jonah in Each of Us" --

Note – Video posting of senior sermons will resume soon. When they are posted a link will appear beneath each senior's name.

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Class of 2008 Senior Sermons

Teri Daily, from the Diocese of Arkansas, on "A Perpetual Gift"

Shelley Adams Forrester, from the Diocese of Wyoming, on Callings

Keith Turbeville, from the Diocese of Virginia, on

Denise Vaughn, from the Diocese of Southwest Florida, on "What Will Our Agenda Be?"

David Perdue, from the Diocese of Oklahoma, on

Richard Pelkey, from the Diocese of Northern California, on Messages

Elizabeth Anagnostis, from the Diocese of Texas, on The True Eucharist

Janice Jones, from the Diocese of Texas, on "Look Again"

Elizabeth Hendrick, from the Diocese of Los Angeles, on A lot of knowledge can puff you up!

Linda Amerault, from the Diocese of Los Angeles, on Sharing Seeds

James Medley, from the Diocese of Southern Virginia, on "In the Midst of Wolves"

Kevin Dellaria, from the Diocese of Northwest Texas, on Amos

Emma Jane Conley on "The Eye of the Needle"

Ann Brotherton, from the Diocese of Hawaii, on "You Are There!"

Edson Way, from the Diocese of Northwest Texas, on the Cross and the Resurrection

Stacy Stringer, from the Diocese of Texas, on "The Heart is the Hinge"

Richard Kidd, from the Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod, on "Truth Will Make Us Free"

Nancy Ricketts, from the Diocese of Texas, on "Mercy and Sacrifice -- That's Simple to Understand"

Chris Heinold, from the Southwestern Texas Synod, on

Lance Peeler, from the Diocese of Oregon, on "Oh, Crap"

Amy Moehnke, from the Diocese of West Texas, on Entering the Narrow Gate

Heath Abel, from the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod, on Sometimes Our Ideas of Jesus Get Conflicted

Randal Bruno, from the Southwestern Texas Synod, on The Miracle of Healing

Steve Cox, from the Southwestern Texas Synod, on

Anthony MacWhinnie, from the Diocese of Central Gulf Coast, on "Let Go of Your Nets"

Edwin Beckham, from the Diocese of Atlanta, on Wise Folk Following a Star

Susan Wilmot, from the Diocese of Arizona, on "Silence and Symbolism"

Other Student Sermons

Peter Atwell, a MAPM student, preached in Christ Chapel on February 28. Audio link from St. Michael's Church in Austin.

Jeff Martinhauk, Class of 2009 from the Diocese of Los Angeles, on "Living the Dream of God" --

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Members of the wider seminary community

The Rt. Rev. Gregory Rickel, ETSS Class of 1996 and Bishop of the Diocese of Olympia, on Growing Towards the Edges, the keynote address he presented to the Conference of Episcopal Communicators on April 9, 2008, in Seattle

The Rev. Dr. Margaret Guenther, Author, Spiritual Director and Professor and Director- emeritus at General Seminary, on Mark 6:7-15

Rev. Theodore Wardlaw, Dean of the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, on "Sacred Space and Bloody Business" -- the sermon given at the November 8 installation service of the Very Rev. Douglas Travis as Dean and President of ETSS

Rev. Richard Schmidt, Editor and Director of Forward Movement Publications, on "Marriage in Heaven?"

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, on "Jesus and Judaism" -- the 2007 Harvey Lecture on April 12, 2007 -- Chapel Talk prior to Harvey Lecture

The Rev. Dr. Joe Samuel Ratliff, Pastor of Brentwood Baptist Church in Houston, preaching on February 22 in Christ Chapel during African-American Heritage Month at ETSS. Audio Only.

The Rev. Dr. Theodore Wardlaw, Dean of the Austin Presybterian Seminary, on "At the End, A King"

The Rev. Kathryn Ryan, Class of 1992, ETSS trustee and rector of Ascension Church, Dallas, Texas, on Get Beyond Our Fears

The Rt. Rev. Sylvester Romero, acting bishop of the Diocese of El Camino Real, Audio Only -- No Video

The Rev. Dr. Michael Battle, Associate Academic Dean and Theology Professor, Virginia Seminary, 2006 Blandy Sermon, Audio Only -- No Video.

Sermon Archives

2006-07 Academic Year

2005-06 Academic Year

2004-05 Academic Year

2002-03 Academic Year

Recent Lectures at ETSS

"The Three Chapter Story and the Politics of Church," the Inaugural Bishop Claude Payne Lecture on February 14, 2008, by the Rev. Canon Dr. Samuel Wells, Professor of Christian Ethics and Dean of the Chapel at Duke University.

"Listening for God amid the clatter," the January 28, 2008, Monday Connection talk by Charles Moody, teacher at Akins High School in Austin who opens college doors for students.

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, on "Jesus and Judaism" -- the 2007 Harvey Lecture on April 12, 2007 -- Chapel Talk prior to Harvey Lecture

The Rev. Dr. Michael Battle, 2006 Blandy Lectures Sermon, Associate Academic Dean and Theology Professor, Virginia Seminary, Audio Only -- No Video

"Changes," the 2006 Harvey Lecture Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Marjorie Procter-Smith, 2006 Harvey Lecturer and LeVan Professor of Preaching and Worship at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

Freedom, Jesus and the American Way -- talk by Anthony Baker at UT Episcopal Center 9.28.05

2004 Blandy Lectures by the Rev. Mark Hanson, ELCA Presiding Bishop

2003 Harvey Lectures by the Rev. Eric H.F. Law -- First Lecture -- Second Lecture

2002 Blandy Lectures (PDF format) by the Rev. Dr. Sam Portaro, Episcopal Chaplain to the University of Chicago.

• Lectures: "We Can't Get There From Here: Challenging the Usual Assumptions of the Problems AND the Solutions" and "Back to the Future -- Finding the Way and Formation in The Way."

• Sermon during September 25 Eucharist