Jennifer Morrow

Desperate and Joyful

Fourth Sunday of EasterPsalm 23Revelation 7:9-17 Reading the book of Revelation always takes me back to the years my family...
May 7, 2019

The Case for Emptiness

Fifth Sunday After EpiphanyIsaiah 6.1-8 (9-13)Luke 5.1-11 I love it when a lectionary text comes with parentheses. It’s a sign,...
February 5, 2019

Something is About to Happen

Thirty-third Week of Ordinary Time1 Samuel 2.1-10Mark 13.1-8 Something is about to happen. That’s the word this week. And it...
November 13, 2018

Solomon: Unedited and Uncut

Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost1 Kings 2.10-12, 3.3-14 And the Academy Award for Selective Biblical Editing goes to…the architects behind today’s...
August 15, 2018

Not As You Suppose

PentecostActs 2.1-21 One Friday night I was working late at church, when a young boy wandered in among the pews....
May 14, 2018

Human Things and Divine Things

Second Sunday of Lent Genesis 17.1-7, 15-16Mark 8.31-38 If you’re reading this blog in preparation to preach this Sunday, then...
February 22, 2018

Time and Mortality

Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 40.1-11 As I sat down to read through the scriptures for this second Sunday of...
December 5, 2017

Holy God

13th Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 3:1-15 How do your prayers usually begin? Chances are there is a phrase, a title,...
August 29, 2017