“Go!” (A28: Proper 5)
Genesis 12:1-9 and Psalm 33:1-12; Hosea 5:15–6:6; Psalm 50:7-15; Romans 4:13-25; Matthew 9:9-13,18-26 Baxley uses the story of God calling and sending Abram in Genesis 12 to think about people on the move. “The fact...
Jeremiah 1:4-10 and Psalm 71:1-6; Isaiah 58:9b-14 and Psalm 103:1-8; Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17 Wyatt recalls a trip to Israel where dusty ruins and lush wetlands stood side by side. She uses that experience of...
“No One Leaves Home Unless…”
Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, begins this Sunday’s sermon with a quote from the poem, “Home,” by Warsan Shire: “No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a...
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...
C18: The Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year C (2019)
Why does the story of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 resonate with so many of us? Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, says, “I think it’s the...