Current Category: Lent

Years ago John Phillip Newell was preaching at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. Standing in the pulpit that hugs one of the massive, thousand-year old pillars of the church, Rev. Newell began his sermon with...
“Some people’s mothers told them not to talk about religion and politics in public,” says Lauren Winner, Author, Episcopal Priest, and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School. “Well, I grew up in...
Father Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, begins this Sunday’s sermon with a remarkable story about the non-miraculous healing of a girl who was blind from birth. Non-miraculous, we say,...
Ryan Ahlgrim, Pastor of First Mennonite Church in Richmond, Virginia, begins this Sunday’s sermon from Exodus 17:1-7 by recounting the story of a hike he and his wife took in the Colorado mountains where they...
Will Willimon has learned to love a lot of the characters in the Gospels, but not Nicodemus. What’s to love about this stuffy know-it-all who comes to Jesus at night in John 3:1-17, pretending to...
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