Sermons
Renewing Balance After Injustice, Yom Kippur 2022
The Physics of Our Quest, Rosh Hashanah 2022
The Sacred And, erev Rosh Hashanah 2022
Our Forwarding Address, Yom Kippur 2021.
Mustaches and Moral Injuries: Resilience in Divisive Times, Rosh Hashanah morning 2021.
Stronger Together, Erev Rosh Hashanah 2021.
This Plastic Hour: Love’s Forward Memory We Need Now, Yom Kippur morning 2020
The Courage to Emerge, Rosh Hashanah morning 2020
The Kind of Love We Need, Erev Rosh Hashanah 2020
The Mishkan’s Next Digital (R)Evolution, keynote teaching at “An Emerging Judaism: A Global Jewish Convening” / the Reb Zalman Digital Memorial Shabbaton, 2020.
Waking Up In Hospice, Yom Kippur 2019
The Soul of Action: The Risks We Must Take, Rosh Hashanah 2019
What We Remember In Our Feet, Cragsmoor Stone Church, August 2018
Holy Vision and Optical Illusion, Rosh Hashanah 2018
Getting to Yes, Yom Kippur 2017
Paying Up, Rosh Hashanah day 2, 2017
Renewing our Holy Wholeness, Rosh Hashanah 2017
The Big Lie, Yom Kippur 2016
The Renewal of Hope, Rosh Hashanah 2016
Seeking the Face of God, Rosh Hashanah 2015
Who Would You Be If You Lost It All? Yom Kippur 2015
The Path of Service, Installation sermon, March 2015
Moses the rookie chaplain and the burning bush (ordination weekend Torah teaching), January 2015
The Light of Belonging, Rosh Hashanah 2014
Shanah, Shinui, Shoneh – Year, Change, and Difference, Rosh Hashanah 2011
Essays and other writings
Why This Rabbi Is Learning Arabic… and Why All Rabbis Should, 2022
What Would Thurgood Do? September 2021
Show Me Your Way: The Trans Microcosm of Spiritual Allyship, spring 2021
Address for the National Havdalah of Reconciliation, November 2020
Jewish ethics demands an independent path forward, February 2019
Leave God Out Of Your Election Commentary, December 2017
Balancing the Scales, October 2016
“If!” Walking Backwards into Elul, September 2016
This, Too, Is For Good: The Power of Hope, August 2016
It’s Your Turn, August 2016
Nowhere To Run (And A Good Thing, Too), August 2016
Separation of Shul and State, July 2016
How to Fall On Your Face: the Spiritual Art of Leadership, July 2015
All Of Us: Rock Band, Judaism, and Emotional Contagion, May 2015
If One’s Means Do Not Suffice: the High Price of Doing Jewish, March 2015
From Sigh To Song: A Way Toward Freedom, January 2016
It’s Thanksgiving, But What If One Doesn’t Feel Thankful?, November 2015
A String Around Your Finger, June 2015
Denominational Ins and Outs: The New Mishkan, February 2015
Five Aspirations for Rabbinic Life, January 2015
A Rabbinic Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis, Moment, fall 2015
The Jewish Duty to Vote, October 2014
See also Essays written for Rabbi Without Borders / My Jewish Learning, and Essays written for The Jewish Studio.
David Evan Markus 