“The Trouble with Bigger Barns” (C36: Proper 13)
Edwards shares an experiment, conducted by the Harvard Business School, on the connection between money and happiness. Edwards offers a conclusion: “Yes, money can buy happiness-—but only if you spend it on someone else.” Edwards...
C36: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
“Does it spark joy?” That’s what the star of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” wants to know about our possessions, and Jesus might agree. In this Sunday’s Gospel lesson he breaks the news that one’s...
C36: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
“You fool!” said Jesus. “This very night your life is being demanded of you and the things you have prepared, whose will they be? So it is with those who store up treasures toward themselves...
C36: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
“What If Everyone Did That?” is a children’s book that Rev. Rachel May uses for her children’s time on the parable of the Rich Fool from Luke 12:13-21. You might wonder how this relates to...