Pentecost 19A Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18 Matthew 22:34-46 At the beginning of the movie, Love Actually, the voice of the character who plays the British Prime Minister has a little speech about love: “Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at the Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting…
Matthew 18:21-35 Pentecost 13A Once upon a time. Jesus is telling parables again today. It’s a good idea, too, since a lot of what Jesus has to say today is difficult for us to hear. Coating it in a nice story might make it easier to swallow. It is made all the more difficult to…
I truly, deeply, do not want to be disrespectful of anyone for whom 9/11 holds particular personal significance by what I am about to say. Also, I have often emphasized to anyone who seeks to find any kind of miniscule connection to the Twin Towers that the attack of that day was not merely on…
Matthew 18 In the beginning, God created. God spoke and it was so. He made all that is. He made the human; made the human community. Made us. And when we fell, he caught us and placed us carefully in a new place so that we could, with his help, learn a new life. God…
Pentecost 11A Jeremiah 15:15-21, Romans 12:9-21, Matthew 16:21-28 Confession: I do not like a single one of the texts for this week. Not one. Jeremiah is whining on, as he does through pretty much his entire book. The text from Romans makes Paul sound like a father with a list of advice for his kids…
Shepherdess Writes 