Johnny Tuttle
The Perfect Tense
Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year A Genesis 18:1-15, (21:1-7) and Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19 | Exodus 19:2-8a and Psalm 100 | Romans 5:1-8 | Matthew 9:35-10:8, (9-23) In a fascinating commentary...
June 11, 2026
Tabitha’s Clothing
Fourth Sunday of Easter Year CActs 9:36-43Art: "Raising Tabitha" By Mary Jane MillerI have a drawer in my office where...
May 7, 2025
Catching People
Fifth Sunday After Epiphany, Year CArtwork: “Fishers of Men II” by Cynthia McCleanIsaiah 6:1-8, (9-13)Psalm 1381 Corinthians 15:1-11Luke 5:1-11I have...
February 3, 2025
Speaking In Suffering
Proper 22 BJob 1:1, 2:1-10As a priest in the upper eastern region of Tennessee, 30 miles from the devastation wrought...
October 3, 2024
Is This Not Mary’s Son?
Seventh Sunday After PentecostProper 9 (B)Mark 6:1-13In my denomination (the Episcopal Church), it has been standard practice to restrict newly...
July 3, 2024
Patience Toward All That is Unsolved
Second Sunday of EasterJohn 20:19-31In Letters to a Young Poet, Franz Xavier Kappus shares his correspondence with the brilliant mystic...
April 3, 2024
Following the Beloved
Baptism of the LordMark 1:4-11When I was a priest in Albany, GA, I was approached by a person who had...
January 11, 2024
Holy Presumption
Twenty-sixth Sunday after PentecostMatthew 25:31-46It is difficult to hear this parable at the end of Matthew’s Gospel without an ominous...
November 23, 2023
Listen to Him, and He Will Tell You Who You Are
August 6th is the Feast of the Transfiguration in the church’s calendar. It also happens to be the anniversary of...
August 3, 2023
In Our Hearts the Piercing Sword
Palm SundayMatthew 21:1-11Dear Friends,I am finding it difficult to even begin, but I cannot be pastorally responsible and ignore the...
March 30, 2023
