Ragan Sutterfield

Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A John 17:1-11 “Clearly, it is possible, through technology, to make death optional.” So said...

Advent 4, Year AIsaiah 7:10-16Matthew 1:18-25Last year, I heard an interview with the artist and editor, Adam Moss. Moss spent...

Proper Luke 15:1-10In one of Wendell Berry’s “Port William” stories, there is a mentally ill man nicknamed Nightlife. He has...

Easter Sunday, Year CJohn 20:1-18Today I’m cutting collards and kale. They’ve been growing in my garden boxes and the scattered...

Proper 23, Year BMark 10:17-31First, there were the oaks, leaves falling, season after season. Beneath them, wet with rain, white...

The Eighth Sunday After PentecostProper 10 (B)Mark 6:14-29When they were younger, I sat in my daughters’ bedroom one evening and...

Third Sunday After the Epiphany Jonah 3:1-5, 10Mark 1:14-20This reflection is cross-posted at The Way We Practice where Ragan offers...

24th Sunday After Pentecost Matthew 25:14-30A version of this post was originally published at the “Wild Lectionary” in 2017.I have been...

Sixth Sunday After PentecostMatthew 11:16-19, 25-30When I was a teenager, I remember my father going to the state legislature to...

Ezekiel 37:1-14John 11:1-45Reading our Gospel for this Sunday, with its raising of Lazarus, I could not help but be reminded...