C44: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
September 19, 2022
“About a year ago a house on my way to and home from church got painted pink. All the other houses along that street are plain-colored, ordinary-looking houses. That whole house, however, from the ground...
C43: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
September 12, 2022
“I’m pregnant!” Father Michael Renninger, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, overheard his 67-year-old mother say on the telephone. He, of course, was confused. Later his mother said to him, “Michael, didn’t...
C42: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
September 5, 2022
“‘I once was lost but now am found. Was blind but now I see.’ I can’t begin to count how many times I’ve sung these famous lines from John Newton’s “Amazing Grace.” I learned the...
C40: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
August 22, 2022
“No matter what the circumstances are, I think everyone likes the feeling of getting a better seat somewhere than the one you were originally given…One time about twelve years or so ago I found myself...
C39: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
August 15, 2022
In today’s passage from Luke 13:10-17, a ‘bent over’ woman, crippled for eighteen years, shows up at the synagogue. She doesn’t seek out Jesus, but Jesus sees her. He puts his sermon on hold, lays...