Mark Ryan
Take Comfort
Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 40:1-11 2 Peter 3:8-15a A week ago Saturday, I heard myself mumble “so much for...
December 4, 2014
Deadly Distractions
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 22:1-14 On a recent morning, after listening to my wife...
October 9, 2014
The Self Under Attack
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 1:8-2:10 OR Isaiah 51:1-6 Psalm 124 Romans 12:1-8 Matthew 16:13-20 We live in times of...
August 19, 2014
Something to Do
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Genesis 28:10-19a Psalm 139 Romans 8:12-27 Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 A couple...
July 16, 2014
Coming In, Going Out
Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 2:36-47 1 Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10 Theologian David McCarthy, in a recent book on the...
May 7, 2014
Doing Well to Remember, Remembering to Do Well
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Exodus 24:12-18 Psalm 2 OR Psalm 99 2 Peter 1:16-21 Matthew...
February 26, 2014
To Feel as Christians
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 Psalm 119:137-144 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 Luke 19:1-10...
October 30, 2013
Praying for the Nation’s Peace and Justice
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 2:4-13 Last week, in our Episcopal church, the prayers of the people began with these...
August 29, 2013
Tensions in the Law
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Amos 7:7-17 OR Deuteronomy 30:9-14 Psalm 82 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37...
July 9, 2013
Overcoming Epistemology
Trinity Sunday Psalm 8 “…one God, the one beginning of all things, the wisdom by which every soul is wise,...
May 23, 2013