Sermons by Rev. Brian Stein-Webber

            Environmental devastation is not new to humans.  In the early settlements of what became Massachusetts, the forests were nearly demolished because of the conversion of trees toward building and fuel.  Primarily fuel, I would think. Today they are replenished, very likely because fuel now comes from fossil sources and wood comes from other parts of the planet.  It’s a mixed story.             Those of us of a certain age might recall when the Cuyahoga River in Pennsylvania caught fire…

Season of Creation – Abundance Deuteronomy 8:7-18; Psalm 19; Revelation 22:1-5; Matthew 6:25-34 My preaching assignment today, during this Season of Creation, is to talk about Abundance.  It is my abundant pleasure to do so.  It is also abundantly daunting!  In English, the words “abundance” and “undulation” are related.  You can hear it. The shared letters between the two mean “wave.”  And whereas undulation means “waviness”, abundance means “from a wave.”  So when we talk about abundance, there is  one…

Rev. Brian Stein-Webber Pentecost 12 John 6:1-58 St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church, Los Osos     One of the marks of a Christian person is adherence to a certain set of beliefs.  For Episcopalians and Lutherans, to take two, this means coinciding our belief with the historical creeds, the Apostles’, the Nicene, the Athanasian.  This type of faith is a matter of cognitive assent, if you understand what I’m saying.  It goes into our brains and out of our brains.  I remember…