A19: Palm/Passion Sunday, Year A (2023)
March 27, 2023
Years ago John Phillip Newell was preaching at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. Standing in the pulpit that hugs one of the massive, thousand-year old pillars of the church, Rev. Newell began his sermon with...
A05: The Nativity of the Lord, Year A (2022)
December 19, 2022
“Nearly fifty years ago, the astronauts on board the Apollo 17 spacecraft took a photograph known as the ‘blue marble.’…This was the first clear image of the planet Earth floating in the inky black vastness...
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...
C11: The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
January 31, 2022
Rev. Amy Starr Redwine, pastor of Richmond’s First Presbyterian Church, tells the story of how a leadership coach, Drew Dudley, teaches about “everyday leadership” through a story about passing out lollipops on a college campus....