5th Sunday after Pentecost Jul 13, 2025 Luke 10: 25-37 We all love a good story, don’t we? And today’s Gospel contains a story most of us have heard many times. So popular that even non-Christians have heard of it. Google Good Samaritan and you might find a reference to the Bible verse, but also … Continue reading Go and Do Likewise
4th Sunday after Pentecost Jul 6, 2025 Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 When I worked for Compassion International, God turned my understanding of mission and hospitality upside down. Shook the “white savior” notions out of me in profound ways. Everywhere I went, in the world and in the US, many of the poor had a dependence on … Continue reading Instruments of Peace
And may God bless you
with enough foolishness
to believe that you can
make a difference in the world, Continue reading Virtues and Vices
Trinity Sunday, Year C June 15, 2025 Today is known and celebrated in many Christian denominations as Trinity Sunday. Happy three-in-one and one-in-three Day! Now, in our household of a biblical writer, a liturgist, and a priest, how to define the Trinity is a common discussion at the dinner table–only to be resolved with, “I … Continue reading Sacred Three
An artist’s depiction of a scene from the Pentecost appears in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. Pentecost Year CJun 8, 2025Acts 2:1-21 In case you were wondering what all the red is about, today is Pentecost, known in the Christian tradition as the beginning of the church. So it only makes sense for me … Continue reading Pentecost
Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year C Jun 1, 2025, Acts 16:16-34 On our last Sunday before the Pentecost, we have a very interesting account of Paul, Silas, Luke and others who were busy spreading the Good News in towns and villages and what happens when the Gospel of Jesus Christ messes with the powers that … Continue reading Liberation
Fourth Sunday in Easter, Year C May 11, 2025 Acts 9:36-43 Not only is it Mother’s Day, but it is also Good Shepherd Sunday! Our reading from the Book of Acts remembers a woman, Tabitha, called Dorcas by the Greek speakers in her region. Tabitha is representative of first-century women who were exemplary disciples of … Continue reading Remembering Tabitha, Methetria
Third Sunday in Easter, Year C May 4, 2025 John 21: 1-19 My friends, I cannot begin this sermon without first acknowledging on this third Sunday in Easter, May the 4th be with you! In the 50 days between Jesus’ resurrection from the dead and his ascension back to what we call the heavenly realm, … Continue reading Come on in, Breakfast is Waiting
Easter Sunday, Year CApril 20, 2025 Alleluia! Christ is Risen! What a week we have remembered. From Palm Sunday to this joyful Easter morning we have walked a path from cries of hosanna (which means save us!) to sorrow to unbelievable joy. If it feels like whiplash, can you imagine what the followers of Jesus … Continue reading Never Let ‘Em Steal Your Joy!
Palm Sunday, Year C April 13, 2025 Today marks the beginning of Holy Week with the procession of palms and singing loud hosannas. We call this day Palm Sunday. I’m not sure if any of you noticed that in the account in the Gospel of Luke today there are no…palms. In Luke’s account, it says … Continue reading The Voices Cannot Be Silenced
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