Love always comes first
Seventh Sunday of Easter – A – May 21, 2023 When university professors are about to retire, they often give a “last lecture” where they answer the question: “What would you say to your students if you had only one … Read More
Our advocate
Sixth Sunday of Easter – A – May 14, 2023 In his memoir Just Mercy, lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson writes about women, men, and children wrongfully sentenced to death, abused in prison, or exploited by a criminal … Read More
Gathering to listen
Fifth Sunday of Easter – A – May 7, 2023 Who says the church doesn’t change? Today’s first reading shows us it can, but it also teaches us how. When conflict arose in the early church, the entire community with … Read More
Who keeps the gate?
Fourth Sunday of Easter – A – April 30, 2023 Did you notice the “gatekeeper” in verse 3 of today’s Gospel? Who is this? We could say it is the Father who is one with Jesus and opens the gate … Read More
“Stay with us”
Third Sunday of Easter – A – April 23, 2023 “The Master was walking with them along the way, and he himself was the way. . . . They were walking along, dead, with Christ alive, they were walking along, … Read More
Grounding our trust in Christ
Second Sunday of Easter – A – April 16, 2023 In Navigating Paul: An Introduction to Key Theological Concepts, Scripture scholar Jouette Bassler explains that the Greek root word pist encompasses more than its English counterpart “belief” implies. It includes … Read More
“Come out!”
Fifth Sunday of Lent – A Unless you have had elect celebrating the scrutinies, the last time your assembly heard this Gospel was at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020. Since then, we have had over … Read More
Faith seeks reason
Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord The first chapter of Luke’s Gospel gives us back-to-back annunciations with very different outcomes. First is the angel Gabriel’s announcement to Zechariah, which leaves him mute until the day of John’s birth. A … Read More
Not proof, but love
Fourth Sunday of Lent – A Who sinned? Isn’t this the one who used to beg? How were your eyes opened? Where is he? How can a sinful man do such things? What do you have to say about him? … Read More
Holy Ground
Third Sunday of Lent – A We were in Selma, Alabama, to see the Edmund Pettus Bridge and maybe have our flagging hope revived. He stood in our way beside a card table in the sweltering heat. A man of … Read More