C39: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
August 15, 2022
In today’s passage from Luke 13:10-17, a ‘bent over’ woman, crippled for eighteen years, shows up at the synagogue. She doesn’t seek out Jesus, but Jesus sees her. He puts his sermon on hold, lays...
C38: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
August 8, 2022
“Today’s Gospel lesson, Luke 12:49-56, is hard! Jesus asks, ‘Did you think I came to bring peace to the earth?’ Well, yes, Jesus, yes, I did. You are the Prince of Peace. I don’t like...
C37: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
August 1, 2022
At a youth conference that Anna Carter Florence attended a few years ago, the musician David Bailey played for one of the worship services. Florence, the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary...
C36: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
July 25, 2022
“Does it spark joy?” That’s what the star of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” wants to know about our possessions, and Jesus might agree. In this Sunday’s Gospel lesson he breaks the news that one’s...
C34: The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
July 11, 2022
“Action or contemplation? Service or worship? Hospitality or prayer? For as long as the church has existed, we’ve debated these dichotomies. Which is more important – kneeling at the altar, or mopping the church floors? ...