“Graveyards and Gardens” (A19: Easter)
Acts 10:34-43; Psalm 118:1-2,14-24; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-18 Gregg mentions the gardens of Eden and Gethsemane, then says: “Our Easter text for today places us in a third garden, a garden that is also a...
B19: Easter Sunday, Year B (2021)
“The traditional Gospel reading for Easter Sunday is John 20:1-18, where Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb early on the first day of the week, while it is still dark. You know that story. It’s...
A20: Easter Sunday, Resurrection of the Lord, Year A (2020)
Two priests walk into a bar and see Jesus. It sounds like a good punch line for a joke. But Phillip Martin, pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Richmond, Virginia, tells how he and a...
A21: Easter Sunday, Resurrection of the Lord, Year A (2017)
MaryAnn McKibben Dana describes herself as “a writer, spouse, mother of three, muffin maker and occasional marathoner. I am a Presbyterian pastor whose spiritual inner child is secretly Quaker. (I guess the secret’s out.) Dana...
B19: Easter Sunday, Year B (2015)
The Rev. Dr. William H. Willimon, Bishop in the United Methodist Church, Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at Duke Divinity School, and one of the most effective preachers in the English-speaking world, takes...