C51: The Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
October 26, 2016
“One of the things I appreciate most about preaching from the lectionary is that it often leads me to preach passages of scripture I would have never chosen on my own,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor...
C50: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
October 26, 2016
“It’s not everyday that the Bible makes a grown man cry. But I remember one day that it did. It was this passage from Luke’s gospel that did it,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s...
C48: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
October 12, 2016
“Whenever a parable seems this clear, this obvious, this straightforward, it most definitely is not,” says Rev. Mandy England Cole, in regard to the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector from Luke 18:9-14....
C47: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
October 6, 2016
Dr. Valerie Carter Smith, Executive Director of the Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia, is herself a “persistent widow.” While her minister husband was alive, he did most of the talking, but now it is Valerie...
C43: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
September 9, 2016
Rev. Rachel May dares to ask the question of how we read biblical texts. She wonders if we have been mis-reading the parable of the “Dishonest Manager” from Luke 16:1-13 all these years. Could we...