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Bob HanselThe Rev. Dr. Robert R. Hansel
Retired, Episcopal Priest
CREDO (Clergy Reflection, Education, Discernment, Opportunity) Team Leader
Memphis, TN

Bob Hansel celebrated his last Sunday as Calvary's Interim Rector on January 25, 2004. He has provided leadership in a wide variety of settings over his forty years of ordained ministry. His previous assignments include: parish priest, prison chaplain, Church school headmaster, Bishop's assistant, National Church staff member, and most recently, Interim Rector of a parish in Cincinnati. In 1999 he completed his thesis and received a Doctoral degree in Congregational Development from Seabury-Western in Evanston, Illinois.

 
Featured Contributions


Lifelines-Help with Life Issues

Talking When Times Are Tough
... The temptation is very real these days--to nod wisely and say nothing even in the face of the most hair-raising stupidity rather than risk getting into an argument. ...

Featured Themes & Authors

Mystery and Mysticism
What can I know for certain?

Praying with Your Heart
The Lord's Prayer

Reflections for Your Journey Brief Insights on Spirituality and Religion

For God and Country
Christian patriotism--an appreciation of what was, a realism about what is, and a devotion to what must be: all three at once...

Give Us Today Our Daily Bread
Life is all about the present. We only get life in daily increments. There's no guarantee that tomorrow will arrive for anybody...

These Are the Times for Perfect Trust
What is "perfect trust"?...

Moving Past the Past
God promises to us as individuals, to our families, even to our church that we will receive the power to stand up straight, to reenter life fully, and to move forward with confidence....

A Love for Us All
Paul Tillich, arguably the greatest religious scholar and writer of modern times,
certainly supports the view of Jesus....

God With Us
God challenges us to put aside pretending, to face life squarely
and realistically, to recognize that it truly can be ruthlessly
hard....

Blessed are the Peacemakers
All of us have opportunities every day to make peace....

A Reason for Hope
Can there still be healing and reconciliation? Do we think that God has somehow closed up shop? God suffers still with us...

Blessed Are the Peacemakers
All of us have opportunities every day to make peace. Every word
and every action involving our family, friends, co-workers...

Voices of Faith Sermons and Essays from the Clergy

Click on the words Audio or Text to access audio sermons online. Audio versions can be heard using the RealAudio RealPlayer. (You can download the RealPlayer here by clicking on Download RealPlayer .)

Sermons

"Caesar's or God's?" • March 12, 2004
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"You Are the Body of Christ" • January 25, 2004
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"Bethlehem, A Birth and a Baby" • December 24, 2003
Audio
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"The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" • December 7, 2003
Audio
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"The Ruling Concerns of Your Life" • November 23, 2003
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"Sight For Sore Eyes" • October 26, 2003
Audio
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"God's Faith in Us" • October 5, 2003
Audio
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"Losing and Finding Life" • September 21, 2003
Audio

"Extreme Generosity" • September 7, 2003
Audio
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"Human Anachronisms" • August 24, 2003
Audio
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"How To Solve All Your Problems" • June 29, 2003
Text

"Follow Me" • June 29, 2003
Text

"Talking When Times Are Tough" • June 15, 2003
Audio
Text

"Celebrate What?" • June 1, 2003
Audio
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"The Good Shepherd" • May 11, 2003
Audio

"Easter Moments" • April 20, 2003
with The Rev. Canon Renée Miller
Audio
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"What Are We to Do? Thoughts on Community,
Compassion and Comfort" • March 23, 2003
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"Pride and Prayer" • March 16 , 2003
Audio

"The Sharp Sword With Two Edges" • February 16 , 2003
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"The Danger of Half-Truths " • February 9 , 2003
Audio
Text

"Calling Sunday" • January 26, 2003
Audio
Text

"Lesson Learned from a Stable" • December 24, 2002
Audio

"What Do You Expect for Christmas?"• December 15, 2002
Audio

"Do What You Can, Where You Are, With What You Have" • November 24, 2002
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"The Lord's Prayer-- For the Kingdom..." • November 3, 2002,
with The Rev. Canon Renée Miller, Interim Associate Rector
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"The Lord's Prayer--Give Us Today Our Daily Bread" • October 13 , 2002
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"The Lord's Prayer--Our Father in Heaven" • September 15, 2002
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"God, Money and You" • September 8, 2002
Audio
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"Patriotism - from a Christian Perspective" • August 18, 2002
Audio (delivered by the Rev. George Yandell)
Text

"Have Patience" • July 21, 2002
Audio

"Not to the Special People, But to the Ordinary Folks" • July 7, 2002
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"Is This Good News?" • June 16, 2002
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"Building on Solid Ground" • June 2, 2002
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"God Is There" • May 5, 2002
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"The Importance of Ascension" • April 28 , 2002
Audio
Text

Easter Sunday, "Knowing God" • March 31, 2002 - 9:00 a.m.
Audio
Text

"Confessions of an Outside Agitator" • March 24, 2002 - 9:00 a.m.
Audio

"In Pursuit of Peace" • March 17, 2002 - 11:10 a.m.
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"Stop Worrying" • March 10, 2002
Text

"Be of Good Cheer" • March 3, 2002
Audio
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Transfiguration Sunday, "People in a Presence" • February 10, 2002
Audio
Text

"Where Is the Child?" • January 6, 2002
Text

Essays

Where Do We Go From Here? • December 28, 2003
The holiday season has become for lots of people more of an
obstacle than a celebration—something to be endured and survived.

“Drawing Nearer To God” Is a Two-way Street • December 21, 2003
Most of us are used to the idea that the Season of Advent is all about preparing for the arrival of God among us in human form, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.

A Celtic Blessing • May 4, 2003
There's a wonderful little book that was introduced to me by my wife--she picks up on and shares with me lots of Christian literature that I wouldn't otherwise know about at all. ...

What Are You Looking For? • April 13, 2003
My longtime good friend, Paul Rogers, is fond of saying, "If anyone thinks that money can't buy happiness then they're shopping in the wrong store!"

A Lenten Dream • March 16, 2003
... Distancing or Embracing. Which one is "right?" Is it Buddha or is it Jesus? ...

What Are You Waiting For this Advent? • December 1, 2002
The highway was nothing but a huge ten-mile-long parking lot. Rays of heat were rising off the pavement (along with steamy exhaust fumes from a few hundred idling truck, car, and SUV engines) adding immeasurably to the heat and frustration. ...

The Gospel of Thanks-living • August 25, 2002
"... Is there some distinctive element of Christianity that is the sole intellectual property of the Christian Church? ...

A Father's Day Thought • June 16, 2002
Every time Father's Day comes around I certainly think about my own biological father but my mind always turns quickly to think of the "Our Father,"...

The Difference Between Curing and Healing • May 12, 2002
In High School my primary interest and activity was playing basketball. I had some skill but not as much as many others ...

The Family of "God" • April 28, 2002
Every once in a while you hear someone jokingly or cynically say,"God gave us our family but, mercifully, we get to choose our friends!"...

The Answer is in the Darkness • An Easter Reflection for 2002

A Far-Fetched Lenten Self-Examination? • March 3, 2002
Every so often--perhaps twice a year--the church service these days includes a reading of the Ten Commandments. That used to happen every Sunday, but it's not a liturgical standard any more...

What is Lent All About? • February 10, 2002
The whole church--Anglican, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant--enters this week into that annual period of devotional frenzy we call LENT...

An Eye-Opening Time • January 6, 2002
In a wonderful collection titled, 2000 Years of Prayer, it is recorded that St. Columba, the sixth century Irish monk and missionary who founded the Iona community, authored this beautiful prayer...

Oasis Touching Sacred Spaces

Art & Soul Meditation
Using art as a vehicle to lead you into an experience of God is not something, I think, that can be taught. Rather, it is CAUGHT...



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