B49: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
The poem, “Home,” by Warsan Shire, a British writer born to Somali parents in Kenya begins, “No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark.” The poem continues, “You have to understand,/that no...
B45: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
“When my children were young…one of their favorite books to read was Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Do you know that book? Almost everything you can imagine goes wrong for...
B12: Transfiguration Sunday, Year B (2021)
Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, begins today’s sermon a bit differently than most by inviting us to join her in a guided meditation. In today’s passage from Mark...
A46: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
“My good friend Alfred heard I was preaching on this wedding banquet story from Matthew 22:1-14. He said he looked forward to me spinning some good news out of this passage,” said Carla Pratt Keyes,...
A40: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
In Exodus 3:1-15, God tells Moses to get going in order to help the Israelite people escape Egypt and Pharaoh’s oppression. Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, in Richmond, Virginia says, “God’s...