Bible Study, Sermons, or Other Talks

Click on the links below–and use the passwords, if necessary!–to see recordings of Bible Study sessions or other sermons, talks, and presentations you might be interested in.

Sermon for Lent III (March 3, 2024) at All Saints, Bloomingdale’s… view here

Bible study on November 8, 2023 … Exodus 25-26: Mercy seats, shewbread, and veils …. View here

Bible study on November 1, 2023 … Exodus 25: Tabernacles, Tents, and Arks … view here

Bible study on October 25, 2023 …. Exodus 24: Holocausts, Shining Cloud, Peace/Thank offerings …. View here


Bible study on October 18, 2023 … Exodus 23: Why Should We Not Eat Beaver? … view here

Bible study on October 11, 2023 …. Exodus 22-23: Annual Holidays and the Apostle-Angel I Will Send … view here

Bible study on October 4, 2023 … Exodus 22: Are the 10 Commandments Distinct From the Others? View here

Bible study on September 27, 2023 …. Exodus 21: Sheep stealing, Zaccheus the tax collector, and four-fold restitution… view here

Bible study on September 20, 2023 … Exodus 21: Dangerous bulls and deliberate deaths … view here

Bible study on September 13, 2023 … Exodus 21: Jewish slaves and God spoke Greek … view here

Bible study on September 6, 2023 … Exodus 20: Commandments, altars, and modest priests … view here

Bible Study on August 30, 2023 … Exodus 20: What’s adultery? What’s murder? What’s honoring your parents? … view here

Bible study on August 23, 2023 … Exodus 20: No adultery. No murder. No theft. What exactly are we talking about? … view here

Bible study on August 16, 2023 … Exodus 20: Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy … view here

Bible study on August 9, 2023 … Exodus 20: Idols, Vain names… view here

Bible study on August 2, 2023 …. Exodus 19: Presbyters, elders, priests, and Mt Sinai … view here

Bible study on July 26, 2023 … Exodus 18: Jethro, priests, kings, and circumcisions … view here

Bible study on July 19, 2023 … Exodus 18: Jethro Brings Back his Daughter… view here

Bible study on July 12, 2023 … Exodus 17: Who was Hur? Judah, Levi, kings, and priests … view here

Bible study on July 5, 2023 … Exodus 16-17: Miriam, Water, Rocks, and Christ … view here


Sermon on Sunday, June 25, 2023 … “Love and Fear Go Hand-in-Hand” … view here

Bible study on June 21, 2023 on Exodus 16 … stench of rotten manna, quails, and so-called allergies to incense —view here


Sermon on Sunday, June 18, 2023 … “You have seen… Emmanuel: God-with-us NOT God-fix-us” — view here


Bible study on June 14, 2023 … Exodus 15–Yemenite Jews, music, and Bitter Waters … view here

Sermon on Sunday, June 11, 2023: “St. Barnabas, the son of consolation, walk with us”—view here


Bible study on June 7, 2023 … Exodus 15, The Song of Miriam … view here

Sermon on Trinity Sunday, June 4, 2023 … “Image and likeness ….”—view here

Bible study on May 31, 2023 at Good Shepherd, “Exodus 14: Israel Crosses the Sea”—view here

Sermon on Pentecost, May 28, 2023 … “The Holy Spirit Descends Twice!”—view here

Bible study on May 24, 2023 at Good Shepherd, “Bones/Relics of Joseph and the Dirt of the Promised Land”—view here

Sermon on the 7th Sunday of Easter, May 21, 2023 …. “Ascension = Christmas, but Different”—view here

Bible study on May 10, 2023 at Good Shepherd, “How is Passover a Sacrifice? Symbol vs. Sacrament”—view here

Sermon on the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 7, 2023, “Quasimodo and Spiritual Milk”—view here

Bible study on May 3, 2023 at Good Shepherd, “Finally Leaving Egypt”—view here

Bible study on April 26, 2023 at Good Shepherd, “2000 Years of Liturgical History in 45 Minutes”—view here

Sermon on the Third Sunday of Easter, April 23, 2023, “Lifting up the Cup of Salvation at Emmaus”—view here

Bible study on April 19, 2023 at Good Shepherd, “ Is the Passover Meal in Exodus 12 Connected to the Eucharist?”— view here

Sermon on Low Sunday at Good Shepherd Church, “Jesus Breathed on Them, and Said….”—view here

Bible Study on April 12, 2023 at Good Shepherd, “The Lamb of God is to be Eaten”—view here

Sermon on Easter Day at Good Shepherd Church, “God spoke my name…” view here

Sermon at the Easter Vigil, April 8, 2023 at Little Church Around the Corner in NYC… “Tonight, time collapses…”—view here

Sermon on Good Friday, April 7, 2023, “Despised, Rejected … Beautiful”—view here


Bible study on April 5, 2023 at Good Shepherd, “What Exactly IS an ‘Egyptian darkness’?”—view here

Sermon for Palm Sunday on April 2, 2023, “Jesus Goes to Joust with Death”—view here


Bible study on March 29, 2023 at Good Shepherd, Exodus 9, “Origen and the 10 Plagues”—view here

Sermon for the 5th Sunday in Lent on March 26, 2023, “Dry Bones, Dry Flour … Apathy, Beauty, and Psalm 130” — view here

Bible study on March 22, 2023 at Good Shepherd, Exodus 8-9, Plagues 3-4-5 (lice, flies, cattle)—view here

Sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent on March 19, 2023, “Divine Spit Re-creates the World”—view here

Bible study on March 15, 2023 at Good Shepherd, Exodus 7-8 and the gas leak downstairs—view here

Sermon for the 3rd Sunday in Lent on March 12, 2023, “Gushing Water, Samaritans, and Chalices” — view here

Bible study on March 8, 2023 at Good Shepherd, Exodus 7, Moses and Aaron and Bloody Sacrificial Systems—view here

Sermon for the 2nd Sunday in Lent on March 5, 2023, “Myths and Truths and Promised Lands”—view here

Bible study on March 1, 2023 at Good Shepherd, Exodus 5-6, Moses Confronts Pharaoh—view here

Sermon for the 1st Sunday in Lent on February 26, 2023, “The Springtime of the Fast”—view here

Bible Study on February 22, 2023 (Ash Wednesday) at Good Shepherd, Exodus 4, The Bridegroom of Blood—view here

Sermon for the Last Sunday After the Epiphany (Quinquagesima) on February 19, 2023, “What Are You Looking At?” view here

Bible Study on February 15, 2023 at Good Shepherd with Dr. Lewis Whitaker, Exodus 4–view here

Sermon for Epiphany 6 (Sexagesima) on February 12, 2023, “Let’s Pretend to be Grown-ups, for a minute or two….”—view here

Bible study on February 8, 2023 at Good Shepherd with Lewis Whitaker, Exodus 3, “REALITY Sent Me”—view here

Sermon for Epiphany 5 (Septuagesima) on February 5, 2023, “Change Your Diet vs. Change Your Behavior”—view here

Bible study on February 1, 2023 with Dr. Lewis Whitaker on Exodus 3:1-10, “Who’s Talking?”—view here

Sermon for Epiphany 4 at Good Shepherd on Sunday, January 29, 2023, “Good Trouble, Bloody and Blissful”—view here.

Bible study on January 25, 2023 with Dr. Lewis Whitaker, “Exodus 2-3: A beautiful baby and a burning bush”—view here.

Sermon for Epiphany 3/Religious Life Sunday at Good Shepherd on Sunday, January 22, 2023, “Repent. Follow. BE QUIET”—view here

Bible study on January 18, 2023 with Dr. Lewis Whitaker, “Exodus 1-2: Rivers and Babies and Beloveds and Only-begottens—O, My!”—view here

Bible Study on January 11, 2023 with Dr. Lewis Whitaker, Exodus 1 OR I Went to School with a Giant — view here

Sermon for the Baptism of Our Lord at Good Shepherd on Sunday, January 8, 2023, “The Baptism of Christ =Sanctify our Stuff”–view here.

Sermon for Holy Name at Good Shepherd on January 1, 2023, “Cutting, Names … and the Mother of God!”—view here.

Sermon for Christmas Day at Good Shepherd on December 25, 2022—view here

Sermon for Advent IV at Good Shepherd on December 18, 2022, “What’s With All These Names?”—view here

Sermon for Advent II at Good Shepherd on December 4, 2022–view here


Sermon at the Church of the Good Shepherd (Kips Bay, Manhattan) for Advent I on November 27, 2022–view here

East and West: Lent, Bread, and Purgatory—plus the Filioque!” presentation to the Church Club of New York on February 15, 2022–view here ( Password: !EbLEd7B)

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church on December 26, 2021–view here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church on December 5, 2021–view here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church on November 14, 2021–view here

Who Are We? What Does it Mean to be Human?” presentation to the adult education program of St. Luke’s in the Fields (NYC) on October 11, 2012–view here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church on October 3, 2021–view here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church on August 29, 2021–view here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church on August 15, 2021–view here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church for the 7th Sunday After Pentecost (July 11, 2021)–view here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church for the 5th Sunday After Pentecost (June 27, 2021)–view here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church for Trinity Sunday (May 30, 2021)–view here or here.

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (April 25, 2021)—view here or here

Adult Education at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church: Women in the New Testament (April 15, April 22, and April 29, 2021)—click on each date to view

Presentation for Adult Education at St. Luke in the Fields: Apocalypse 101: Reading the Apocalypse (March 15, 2021)—view here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in NYC for the Second Sunday in Lent (February 28, 2021)—view here or here

Sermon at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in NYC for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (Septuagesima)—view here or here

Sermon for the Sunday after Christmas at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, NYC (December 27, 2020)–view here

Adult Education at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church: Icons of the Circumcision of Christ and the Holy Innocents (December 17, 2020)—view here

Adult Education at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church: Icons of the Nativity of Christ (December 10, 2020)—view on Vimeo here

Presentation for the 200th anniversary of the Church of St. Luke in the Fields: “Altar to an Unknown God: St Paul in Athens and Early Christian Apologetics” (November 30, 2020)–view here

Sermon for Advent I at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, NYC (November 29, 2020)–view here or here


Presentation for the 200th anniversary of the Church of St. Luke in the Fields: “Relics of SS. Stephen, Peter, and Paul in the Acts of the Apostles” (November 16, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: The Concubine and Levite in Judges 19-21 (part 2) as well as Rape in the Prophets and the Old Testament, and rules about Betrothal/Marriage (October 28, 2020)–view here

Presentation for the 200th anniversary of the Church of St. Luke’s in the Fields: “They continued in the apostles‘ teaching and fellowship, the breaking of bread and the prayers:” Acts 2 in Conversation with the Didache (October 19, 2020)—view here

Bible Study: Rape and Dismemberment of the Concubine and the Levite In Judges 19-21 (October 21, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: Macbeth, Miriam (part 2), Seafood a Messianic Sign, and Dinah (October 14, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: The Daughters of Zelophehad, Miriam (part 1), and the Definition of Adultery (October 7, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: Jael and Deborah (September 30, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: Jephthah’s Daughter (part 2) and Clean/Unclean in the Old Testament (September 23, 2020)—view here

Bible Study: Delilah and Jephthah’s Daughter (September 16, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: Hannah and (the beginning of) Delilah (September 9, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: the “witch” of Endor, part 2 (September 2, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: Michal and Abigail, wives of King David, and the beginning of the Witch of Endor discussion (August 26, 2020)—view here Password: H&Fh6C@L

Bible Study: Tamar and Bathsheba (given August 19, 2020)–view here Password: A5g=8nC^

Bible Study: Shunamite Woman and Queen of Sheba (given August 12, 2020)—view here Password: rZ^cms%4

Bible Study: Prophet Huldah—and Lilith! (given August 5, 2020) — view here (Password: IfTF4*44)

Byzantium and Friends podcast interview about Byzantine Orthodoxy and Homosexuality. (January 2020)

Bible Study: Queen Jezebel (given July 29, 2020)–view here (password: &k!@7piJ)

St. Mary Magdalen: Apostle to the Apostles (given July 22, 2020 to the Adult Education group at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Forest Hills)–view it here

Bible Study: Queen Esther (given July 22, 2020)–view here (password: +Z32j@dr )

Bible Study: Susanna (given July 15, 2020)–view here (password: 4d%H#8*w)

Bible Study: Judith (given July 8, 2020)–view here (password: 2w$Pq&6e )

Bible Study: Tobit (given July 1, 2020)–view here (password: 6g#5z@58 )

Bible Study: Maccabees (given June 24, 2020)–view here (password: 7U^va$!v)

Bible Study: Thekla, Irene, and Nina (given June 17, 2020)–view here (password: 5T@$?Br= )

Bible Study: Women of the New Testament (given June 10, 2020)–view here (Password: 2v$+08&S)

Bible Study: Women of the New Testament (given June 3, 2020)–view here (password: 6y$914fl)

Bible Study: Women of the New Testament (given May 27, 2020)–view here (password: 8F*2#6m&)

Bible Study: Women of the New Testament (given May 20, 2020)–view here (password: 3s=c03I=)

Bible Study: Women of the New Testament (given May 13, 2020)–view here (password: 7R!+374=)

Bible Study: Women of the New Testament (given May 6, 2020)–view here (password: 5h==r#$l)

Bible Study: Women of the New Testament (given April 29, 2020)–view here (Password: 2V.rUc.&)

Bible Study: Women of the New Testament (given April 22, 2020)–view here (Password: 3m!Q2691)

Bible Study: Women of the New Testament (given April 15, 2020)–view here (password: t2#@=&q*)

Bible Study: Gospel of St. Mark (given April 8, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: Gospel of St. Mark (given April 1, 2020)–click here to view

Bible Study: Gospel of St. Mark (given March 25, 2020)–view here

Bible Study: Gospel of St. Mark (given March 18, 2020)–view here