C13: The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
February 14, 2022
“Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who abuse you.” These words from today’s passage, Luke 6:27-38, are probably the most “radical, ridiculous, and...
B50: The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
November 1, 2021
When it comes to immigration, our country and many other countries wrestle with the question of “who can be included and who should be excluded,” begins Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church of Richmond,...
B44: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
September 20, 2021
Perhaps one of the most familiar lines from the book of Esther is when Mordecai reminds Esther that she was in her current position in the king’s court “for such a time as this…” In...
“What kind of government do we want?” asks Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church of Richmond, Virginia. Ahlgrim continues, “We’re not alone in this…even the ancient Israelites wrestled with this question.” In today’s passage,...
B23: The Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B (2021)
April 26, 2021
“One day I was walking through a quiet neighborhood. I noticed a church building, or at least, I thought it was a church building. I wasn’t quite sure…What was throwing me off was that it...