The Protestant/Catholic false dichotomy
It probably was not wise to spend much of my summer watching DVDs of the HBO series, “The Tudors,” just after my ordination in the Episcopal Church and just before…
Author: Janine Schenone
I am the rector (senior pastor) at Good Samaritan Episcopal Church in San Diego, California.
Looking on the Heart: Sermon on August 26, 2012 (text and audio)
Preached at Grace Church, Millbrook, NY, August 26, 2012. Texts: Joshua 24: 1-2, 14-18 Psalm 34-15-22 Ephesians 6:10-20 John 6:56-69 Audio link: Leadership_sermon My friends in Christ, it is a…
Manna Falling from Heaven: Sermon on Pentecost 11, Max’s Baptism (audio)
Here is the audio file of the sermon that I preached at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Pearl River, NY on the occasion of baby Max’s baptism. (The shortness of…
Of pride and piracy (the good kinds)
Well, that ordination was amazing. As I shook people’s hands at the end of my ordination, the most consistent comment I heard from people (especially people I had never met)…
The Rev. Greta Getlein’s ordination sermon
A Sermon Preached on June 16, 2012 by The Rev’d Greta Getlein Trinity Cathedral, Sacramento California Ordination to the Transitional Deaconate Gospel Text John 21:15-19 “Again he asked him, Simon,…
“I’m gettin’ ordained in the morning!”
Several months ago, my bishop and I discussed details of my ordination’s time and place. I realized that I was having strong feelings about where and when and how it…
When theology can kill you…
We usually don’t think of theology as a deadly profession, but it can be. I deliberately intend the double entendre of “profession” here: that is, it can mean both “the…
From the Via Anglicana to the Villa Anglicana
Thanks to a generous donation to the Berkeley Divinity School, I travelled to El Salvador last week with three other members of Berkeley for an 8-day mission trip hosted by…
Baring oneself to goodbye
The problem with getting ready to leave a seminary where one has lived, studied, worshipped, eaten, and partied for three years is that everyone wants to process our imminent departure.…
Sermon on 3 Epiphany, 2012
[This sermon was preached in New Haven, CT in January, 2012, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, a historically black church with an illustrious history of discipleship and ministry.] In 2006,…
Sermon (Audio): Transition Time
I preached this sermon at my sponsoring parish of St. Francis Episcopal Church of Fair Oaks, California on April 22, 2012. Our congregation’s rector, the Rev. Marcia Engblom, died suddenly…
“Do you know where you’re going?”
Oh, my friends, the third year of seminary can sometimes be a vast sea of conflicting currents covered over by a thick fog of assurance about salvation–I mean “vocation.” Yes,…
Sermon: “How can I face such slaughter and be cool?”
(Preached at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, a historically black church with an illustrious history of discipleship and ministry in New Haven, Connecticut, on March 25, 2012, and posted at the request…
Wade in the Water
I am incredibly privileged to preach now and then at St. Luke’s, one of the oldest historically black Episcopal churches in the United States, and a church with an incredible…
Gospel on the Ground 