• February 13, 2025
    Sixth Sunday After EpiphanyPsalm 1Luke 6:17-26Over the past few weeks, the children’s Sunday School class at my church has been…

  • February 3, 2025
    Fifth Sunday After Epiphany, Year CArtwork: “Fishers of Men II” by Cynthia McCleanIsaiah 6:1-8, (9-13)Psalm 1381 Corinthians 15:1-11Luke 5:1-11I have…

  • January 28, 2025
    Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish…

  • January 22, 2025
    Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10Psalm 191 Corinthians 12:12-31Luke 4:14-21Having been raised without television has advantages. When in 2015 I chose to…

  • January 14, 2025
    Artwork by John August SwansonReadings: Isaiah 62:1-5; Psalm 36:5-10; John 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:1-11Over thirty years ago, the story of water…

  • January 9, 2025
    Baptism of Our Lord Year CLuke 3:15-22I discovered the cure for political blues. The cure for xenophobia. The cure for…

  • January 1, 2025
    Luke 2:1-14“In the days of empires and puppet regimes, God speaks… through wombs,” Drew Jackson God Speaks Through Wombs Mary was…

  • January 1, 2025
    Jeremiah 31:7-14Ephesians 1:3-14John 1:10-18If memory serves me correctly, one of the persistent themes in a lot of the TV shows…

  • December 18, 2024
    4th Sunday of AdventLuke 1:39-55As encounters go, the one described in our reading from Luke’s gospel today is pretty far…

  • December 9, 2024
    Zephaniah 3:14-20Isaiah 12:2-6Philippians 4:4-7Luke 3:7-18Tradition designates the third Sunday in Advent the “joyous” (sometimes called Gaudete, or “rejoice”) Sunday. It’s…