Kyle Childress
Improvisational Gospel
Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 16:16-34 Theologian David Ford uses the term “improvisation” in his book Self and Salvation to...
May 3, 2016
It’s About Jesus
Transfiguration Sunday Luke 9:28-36 This is a strange story; we don’t often know what to make of it. What does...
February 3, 2016
Living Out of Control
First Sunday of Advent Luke 21:25-36 Advent begins with reminding us that we are not in control. Since we are...
November 24, 2015
How Much is Enough?
The post for this week is from the archives: Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Numbers 11:...
September 24, 2015
Inside and Out
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 I was leaving a meeting with several...
August 25, 2015
Large Things in Small Parishes
Third Sunday after Pentecost Mark 4:26-34 The Texas historian of a generation ago, Walter Prescott Webb, has a wonderful paragraph...
June 10, 2015
Two Christianities
Seventh Sunday of Easter John 17:6-19 During a haircut my barber asked me, “Do you believe that zombies are real?”...
May 13, 2015
Loving the World
Fourth Sunday of Lent John 3:14-21 Likely the most well known verse in the entire Bible is John 3:16: For...
March 11, 2015
Learning to Squint
First Sunday of Advent Isaiah 64:1-9 Mark 13:24-37 When I was a boy I knew an old rancher whose face...
November 26, 2014
Priests at Every Elbow
I Thessalonians 2:1-8 Indeed, the appeal we make never springs from error or base motive; there is no attempt to...
October 21, 2014
