A38: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
August 7, 2023
“In just about every sphere of life…we are tempted to reduce complex concepts to simple ideas that are easier for us to grasp. We long to break things down into the lowest common denominator that...
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...
A16: The Third Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
March 9, 2020
Reverend Amy Starr Redwine, pastor and head of staff at First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia says, “A long tradition of Biblical interpretation concludes that the woman at the well must be a prostitute. Many of...
A09: The Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A (2020)
January 20, 2020
“Where are you a local?” asks Reverend Amy Starr Redwine, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage, Matthew 4:12-23, we learn that Jesus does not go to his local places to find...
C40: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
August 26, 2019
“A church I served developed a clever evening of fellowship called ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’,” begins the Reverend Amy Starr Redwine, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia. A family in the church agreed...