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B49: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
October 31, 2021
The poem, “Home,” by Warsan Shire, a British writer born to Somali parents in Kenya begins, “No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark.” The poem continues, “You have to understand,/that no...
B48: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
October 24, 2021
“In the year 1889, after several days of torrential rain, the South Fork dam on the Little Conemaugh River catastrophically failed,” begins Jason Micheli, pastor of Annandale United Methodist Church in Annndale, Virginia. The city...
B46: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
October 10, 2021
“Have you ever felt used? It’s a crummy feeling to be treated as a pawn or stepping stone in someone’s plan, as an unwilling object used for another’s benefit or pleasure. It’s dehumanizing and it’s...
B45: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
October 3, 2021
“When my children were young…one of their favorite books to read was Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Do you know that book? Almost everything you can imagine goes wrong for...
B44: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
September 26, 2021
Perhaps one of the most familiar lines from the book of Esther is when Mordecai reminds Esther that she was in her current position in the king’s court “for such a time as this…” In...