This last sermon was actually the first one that I had given in a LONG time (like, since high school, at the tail end of my mid-teens run as a Pious Youth). It is a product of having worked through (or begun to work through) a few things. It is also, in part, an effort to avoid the romance of despair simply by acknowledging the allure of despair. All this explains the sermon’s confessional and therapeutic aspects, offering hope as the complement to history. This may also explain its long-windedness.

You can find the text at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KVfA....