December 8, 2025

Advent 2, Year AIsaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72Advent feels jarring. I love the beautiful poetry of Isaiah pointing us to a…

December 8, 2025

Advent 1, Year AIsaiah 2:1-5 | Psalm 122 | Romans 13:11-14 | Matthew 24:36-44In a church I formerly attended, the…

November 18, 2025

Proper 29Christ the King Sunday, Year CJeremiah 23:1-6 | Psalm 46 | Colossians 1:11-20 | Luke 23:33-43Alarmed by the rise…

November 4, 2025

Proper 27 (32), Year CHaggai 2:1-2:92 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17Luke 20:27-38As I’ve sat with this Sunday’s lectionary passages, some lyrics we…

October 21, 2025

Proper 25(30)Jeremiah 14:1-22Judgment. We work hard to steer away from it. We don’t want to be judged. Neither do we…

October 15, 2025

Proper 24(29)Luke 18.1-8* Luke’s Narrative Introduction (vs.1)When Huck Finn heard about prayer, he put an empty shoe box under his bed…

October 9, 2025

By Andrew SheppardYear C, Proper 23 (28)Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7As the election cycles continue in their contrived rhythms and barrage our…

September 24, 2025

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Luke 16:19-31We all know the “problem” with Jesus’ parables. It’s tempting to collapse them into easy-to-digest…

September 17, 2025

Proper 20 (25), Year CJeremiah 8:19-9:1 [Amos 8:4-7]Psalm 79:1-9 [Psalm 113]1 Timothy 2:1-7Luke 16:1-13“In our time, political speech and writing…

September 9, 2025

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