Shannon Schaefer

Second Sunday of Easter John 20:19-31 The gospel text this week moves me - has always moved me. It’s something...

  Baptism of the Lord/First Sunday after Epiphany Genesis 1:1-5 Psalm 29 Mark 1:4-11  So many moments fold into this...

First Sunday after Christmas Day Matthew 2:13-23 Christmas Eve, we huddled up in a back parking lot in Houston’s east...

Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost1 Timothy 1:12-17Luke 15:1-10 I suppose this is somewhat atypical, unless you too were a farm kid,...

Transfiguration SundayMark 9:2-9 I am just old enough to remember photography before the digital age. As a teen I used...

Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost Matthew 22:1-14 Sunday evenings, I help set the tables for the urban dinner church where I...

Genesis 25:19-34 Psalm 119: 105-112 Romans 8:1-11 Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 After a couple of years of apartment life and growing...

  Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 7:55-60 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14  One way of reading Flannery...

Sixth Sunday after Epiphany Deuteronomy 30:15-20 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Matthew 5:21-37 In the days after the American election results, it...

Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 What will I do? What will I do without exile, and a long...