“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...
A44: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
How quickly we forget! The Israelites had just been freed from bondage in Egypt by crossing the Red Sea on dry land, escaping the pursuing Egyptian army, who drowned when the walls of water crashed...
A26: Ascension of the Lord, Year A (2023)
“Is now the time that you will restore the kingdom to Israel, Lord?…Are we there yet?…Is now when justice will be served, when wrong will be made right, when suffering will end?” The disciples this...
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...
B12: Transfiguration Sunday, Year B (2021)
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...