C36: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
July 25, 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...
C23: The Third Sunday of Easter, Year C (2022)
April 25, 2022
“Each of the gospels has different versions of the grief Jesus’s followers experienced after their beloved teacher died. In the version we heard today from John 21:1-19, the disciples have already seen the resurrected Jesus,...
C17: The Third Sunday in Lent, Year C (2022)
March 14, 2022
“Lately it’s been hard to escape the topic of money…Money, it seems, is a human obsession,” says Amy Starr Redwine, pastor of Richmond’s First Presbyterian Church. Redwine quotes Author and philanthropic critic, Edgar Villanueva, “Money...
C08: The Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
January 10, 2022
“When I was growing up, we would often go to my grandparents’ house in South Carolina for a week or so in the summer time,” begins Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester,...
B13: The First Sunday in Lent, Year B (2021)
February 15, 2021
In 1825, on the banks of the Wabash River in Indiana, an old town called New Harmony was founded. This town was to be the perfect society. Many wonderful things happened there, but within four...