6/23 Readings: Anguish and Hope June 17, 2019 Sunday's Readings If lamentation is never acknowledged from the pulpit, the people who make their home in the pews may feel that the church is deaf to their deepest cries and their worst sorrows.
6/16 Readings: One Love June 9, 2019 Sunday's Readings The Father’s begetting love bears fruit in the Son’s eternal love of the Father. This is a love story, for God is love.
6/9: Ordinary Disciples June 3, 2019 Sunday's Readings The "old gentlemen" of Hawthorne's Custom House "must stay where they are; in the story of faith, however, such persons are often called forth."
6/2: Ascent, Stillness, and Power May 27, 2019 Sunday's Readings The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the story of our exaltation in union with Christ.
5/26: Such Good Things May 20, 2019 Sunday's Readings “O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding.”
5/19: Everyone and Everything May 13, 2019 Sunday's Readings After St. Peter’s vision, we cannot fantasize long about Us and Them. The whole creation is the raw material of a New Jerusalem.
5/12: Naming May 6, 2019 Sunday's Readings 4 Easter, May 12 Acts 9:36-43 Ps. 23 Rev. 7:9-17 John 10:22-30 “After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and language... Read more...
5/5: He Fell to the Ground April 29, 2019 Sunday's Readings Having intended to inflict suffering, Paul would become a man of sorrows.
4/28: The Lord Has Acted April 22, 2019 Sunday's Readings God in Christ has undergone the worst of human evil and yet stood firm in the divine desire to forgive sinners and call into being a new humanity.
Easter Day: Announcement April 18, 2019 Sunday's Readings We have been chosen as witnesses through the sheer and utter grace of God.
