Sermons from the National Cathedral

Samuel T. Lloyd

doi:10.5771/9781442222854

Summary

Washington National Cathedral stands in an unparalleled position at the intersection of religious faith and public life in America, and has been called the “spiritual home for the nation.” Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III occupied its massive Canterbury pulpit as dean during an often- turbulent period in the nation and rapid changes in American religious life.

In Sermons from the National Cathedral, Dean Lloyd provides a compelling vision of an intellectually alive, publicly engaged Christian faith, a vision of the Christian life rooted in ancient teaching. Readers will find the sermonsse engaging and appreciate that Dean Lloyd takes seriously the experiences of doubt and searching that are so much a part of the modern religious experience of our time. He successfully demonstrates the positive role faith can play in public life and addresses the questions and challenges faith must face in the twenty-first century.

These soundings, as Lloyd calls them, illumine the full spectrum of Christian belief while also addressing such issues as the difficulty of faith, the relationship between science and faith, the mystery of suffering, the necessity of forgiveness, the meaning of the cross, the urgency of reconciliation, and the call to care for the earth. These reflections will appeal to traditional Christians seeking spiritual enrichment and are accessible to those seeking answers to how their faith fits into our modern world.

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Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-9618-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-2285-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 361
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
4. Introduction No access
1. A God We Can Trust No access
2. Follow Me No access
3. The Calling of Holiness No access
4. Costly Discipleship No access
5. Will You Dance? No access
6. Commanded to Love No access
7. When God Throws a Brick No access
8. Following an Elusive Lord No access
9. Haggling Prayer No access
10. Does God Care? No access
11. The Silence of God No access
12. God, Science, and the Life of Faith No access
13. The Night Visitor No access
14. The Miracle of Forgiveness No access
15. Holy Laughter No access
16. Trusting against the Evidence No access
17. Grace No access
1. 1. Installation Sermon No access
  2. An Unfinished Cathedral No access
2. 1. A New Community No access
3. 1. Doubts and Loves No access
4. 1. On the Far Side of Revenge No access
5. 1. The Spirit of Understanding No access
  2. A Big Enough House No access
6. 1. In Thanksgiving for the Life of Dorothy Height No access
  2. An Extremist for Love No access
  3. Black and White on the Road to Emmaus No access
  4. Mind the Gap No access
7. 1. To Save This Fragile Earth No access
8. 1. A Humble Patriotism No access
9. 1. A Thankful Heart No access
  2. Giving Thanks in All Things No access
1. 1. Waiting No access
  2. Making Room for God No access
  3. Mary Said Yes No access
2. 1. God Comes In No access
  2. The Birth of the Messiah No access
  3. The Plunge No access
3. 1. The Magi and Us No access
  2. Beloved No access
4. 1. The Truth of Ash Wednesday No access
  2. The Joy of Ash Wednesday No access
  3. Going for Broke No access
5. 1. Love So Amazing No access
  2. Strange Fruit No access
6. 1. What a Way to Run a Universe No access
  2. Staring Into the Dark No access
7. 1. Death Be Not Proud No access
  2. Nevertheless No access
8. 1. Christ Has Gone Up No access
9. 1. The Spirit of Life No access
10. 1. The Trinity and the Nearness of God No access
  2. Who Do You Say That I Am? No access
11. 1. The Real Thing No access
  2. The Communion of Saints No access
Notes No access Pages 347 - 360
About the Author No access Pages 361 - 361