Tag: church

  • October 6, 2011
    18th Sunday After Pentecost; 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Philippians 4:1-9; Matthew 22:1-14 Perhaps our response to Sunday’s lectionary gospel…

  • September 20, 2011
    15th Sunday after Pentecost 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 Philippians 2:1-13 Matthew 21: 23-32 “You can’t conceive,…

  • September 6, 2011
    13th Sunday After Pentecost Exodus 14: 19-31 Psalm 114 Romans 14: 1-12 Matthew 18: 21-35 Annie Dillard, in The Writing…

  • August 29, 2011
    12th Sunday after Pentecost Ezekiel 33:1-11 Romans 13:8-14 Matthew 18:15-20   It is strangely comforting to hear Jesus talking about…

  • August 17, 2011
    Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 1:8-2:10 Psalm 124 Romans 12:1-8 Matthew 16:13-20 This week’s comments are pointings and plantings rather…

  • May 10, 2011
    Easter 4:  Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 23, 1 Peter 2: 19-25, John 10: 1-10 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching…

  • May 4, 2011
    Luke 24:13-35 “Are you the only person who doesn’t know what’s been going on for the past few days?” Apparently…

  • January 12, 2011
    John 1: 29-42 At age 51, Noah Adams, a host on National Public Radio, abruptly decided he had to have…

  • January 25, 2010
    I Corinthians 13:1-13 I have never found it easy to move from scripture to theological concepts like virtue when I…

  • July 1, 2009
    Ezekiel 2:1-5; Psalm 123; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13 I’ve been married long enough now to understand how, in great…