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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.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Book One - Reflections on Faith
God We Can Trust
Follow Me
The Calling of Holiness
Costly Discipleship
Will You Dance?
Commanded to Love
When God Throws a Brick
Following an Elusive Lord
Haggling Prayer
Does God Care?
The Silence of God
God, Science, and the Life of Faith
The Night Visitor
The Miracle of Forgiveness
Holy Laughter
Trusting Against the Evidence
Grace
Book Two - Events and Issues
Cathedral Life
A Voice, A Place, A People
An Unfinished Cathedral
Presidential Inauguration
A New Community
Anniversary of 9/11
Doubts and Loves
Place of Reconciliation
The Far Side of Revenge
Religious Diversity
The Spirit of Understanding
A Big Enough House
Race and Poverty
In Thanksgiving for Dorothy Height
An Extremist for Love
Black and White on the Road to Emmaus
Mind the Gap
Earth Day
To Save This Fragile Earth
Independence day
A Humble Patriotism
Thanksgiving
A Thankful Heart
Giving Thanks in All Things
Book Three - Church Year
Advent
Waiting
Making Room for God
Mary Said Yes
Christmas
God Comes In
The Birth of the Messiah
The Plunge
Epiphany
The Magi and Us
Beloved
Lent
The Truth of Ash Wednesday
The Joy of Ash Wednesday
Going for Broke
Palm Sunday
Love So Amazing
Strange Fruit
Good Friday
What A Way to Run A Universe
Staring Into the Dark
Easter
Death Be Not Proud
Nevertheless
Ascension
Christ Has Gone Up
Pentecost
The Spirit of Life
Ordinary Time
The Trinity and the Nearness of God
Who Do You Say That I Am?
All Saints
The Real Thing
The Communion of Saints
About the author
Samuel T. Lloyd III is a priest of the Episcopal Church in the United States who served as the ninth Dean of the Washington National Cathedral, having been installed there on April 23, 2005, and serving until September 18, 2011. Before his tenure as Dean, Samuel Lloyd previously served as rector of historic Trinity Church, Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the largest Episcopal congregations in the United States. He returned to Trinity after leaving the National Cathedral. Lloyd has taught in seminaries and has frequently spoken at conferences and conventions. He has preached on the "Protestant Hour" on radio and offered courses in the area of Christianity and literature, including Flannery O'Connor, Dante, contemporary fiction, C. S. Lewis, and the parables. He served as a regent of the University of the South. His writing and reviews have been published by the Sewanee Theological Review, Forward Movement, Anglican Digest, and Journal of Religion, among others.