Kelly Johnson

Authority and the Madness of Love

Fourth Sunday After EpiphanyDeuteronomy 18:15-20Psalm 1111 Corinthians 8:1-13Mark 1:21-28 It’s tempting to want to know just what exactly Jesus said...
January 23, 2018

A Harsh and Dreadful Love

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Ezekiel 33:7-11 Psalm 119:33-40 Romans 13:8-14 Matthew 18:15-20 In today’s second reading, Paul writes, “Owe nothing...
September 5, 2017

With Us to the End of the Age

Trinity Sunday Genesis 1:1-2:4a Psalm 8 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Matthew 28:16-20 And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority...
June 6, 2017

Securing Our Place

Second Sunday of Lent Genesis 12:1-4a Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 John 3:1-17 The chief temptation of Lent is not that we...
March 8, 2017

Don’t Panic (The End is Good News)

Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 65:17-25 OR Malachi 4:1-2a 2 Thessalonians 3: 6-13 Luke 21:5-19...
November 8, 2016

Slavery and the Cost of Discipleship

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Philemon 1:1-21 Tradition supplies a backstory for the short book Philemon:...
August 31, 2016