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...
B42: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
September 12, 2021
In this Sunday’s sermon, “Low Anthropology,” from James 3:1-12, Jason Micheli, pastor of Annandale United Methodist Church in Annandale, Virginia, begins by quoting an essay entitled Confessions of a Bad Christian by Harrison Scott Key....
B41: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
September 5, 2021
After today’s gospel reading from Mark 7:24-37, we might ask, “Wait a minute. Did Jesus just call that woman a dog?” says Chuck Treadwell, Rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. He continues,...