“The traditional Gospel reading for Easter Sunday is John 20:1-18, where Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb early on the first day of the week, while it is still dark.  You know that story.  It’s...

“When I moved to Winchester, Virginia, I learned very quickly how much my town loves a good parade. For a whole weekend we celebrate as the Apple Blossom Festival shuts down banks and schools and...

“My dad and I would always laugh about one of the strangest dinners we ever shared,” begins Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winchester, Virginia. “After we ordered delicious food and were...

Phillip Martin, pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Richmond, Virginia says he had to laugh at something his first-grade daughter said about rules in elementary school, where they reward good behavior by moving a clothespin...

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...