Kyle Matthew Oliver

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  • Last Sermon for a While

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    I’ve preached three of the last four Sundays, so I’m looking forward to a bit of a homiletical hiatus. Still, it’s been a rewarding month for this preacher-in-training. Here’s what I had to say today on John 4:5-42: Throughout the centuries, readers of today’s story from John’s gospel have encountered the passage, taken in its…

  • Little Rock…Rocks

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    So, I was in Little Rock this past weekend preaching at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. What a thoroughly lovely parish and a fun experience. If you ever get to Little Rock, definitely check out Whole Hog; it had been far too long since I had real barbecue. Anyway, here’s the sermon I preached on Romans…

  • Another Take on “The Real Problem” in Anglicanism Today

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    I recently read with some exhaustion a Living Church account (though not this one) of the Mere Anglicanism conference held in Charleston, SC, back in January. The theme of the conference was “Biblical Anglicanism for a Global Future: Recovering the Power of the Word of God.” I have to say, especially in the added light…

  • Some Roman Reflections

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    The following is going to go up on the VTS Anglican Commentary at some point, but I owe you all some kind of comment on my Rome trip, so you get a sneak peak. Sorry for my absence here lately! It’s been an exciting but extremely busy semester so far. More info…sometime. Enjoy! The first…

  • Buona sera da Roma

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    Well, I’ve been traveling for about a week and have seen a lot of Italy that I didn’t catch on my previous trip. My classmate and I stayed near Sorrento and saw some of the sights in Naples (yuck), Pompei (extensive and relatively pristine), Capri (touristy but stunning), the Amalfi Coast (a tough drive and…

  • (Additional) Good News of Great joy

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    For those of you who haven’t heard through other channels (or haven’t heard the story), I’m writing to let you know that I am now engaged! Kristin and I decided sometime in November that we were ready to take the plunge, and we ordered a ring at Savitt Jewelers in New Haven when I was…

  • Sermon Catch-Up

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    It’s been a busy couple of weeks (see forthcoming post), so I’m just now getting around to posting my sermons from the second and third weeks of Advent. They were each shortened a bit on the cutting-room floor, but this ought to give you the gist. Indeed, the Advent 2 sermon was given from the…

  • A Tale of Botched Science Reporting -and/or- A Plea to Headline Writers

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    If I’m understanding it correctly, then I’m massively disappointed with how someone (Gizmodo? headline writers?) is shaping reports of NASA’s new findings on Gammaproteobacteria GFAJ-1. The first release I read, by Gizmodo at Wired Science via an excerpt on Episcopal Café (I love my church), made it sound like a life form had been discovered…

  • Update (In Words and Pictures)

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    A lot has happened in the past few weeks. Here are the ultra-highlights: (1) I became a godfather. The new Christian in question is Josiah William Paul Kradel, son of my dear friends Adam Kradel and Melissa Wilcox. The baptism took place at Adam’s parish, Christ Church in Media, PA. It was a special day.…

  • Sermon: “How do we solve the sandwich?”

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    I preached my five-minute sermon on Mark 5:21-43 today in homiletics class. I share it below in case (like at least one person I know) you enjoy reading sermons online at every possible moment. Note that it was written for and preached solely to an academic audience; I understand that the very premise of “solving…