“Like a Shakespearean Tragedy”
The Rev. MaryAnn, McKibben Dana, popular Presbyterian preacher, author, blogger, and retreat leader, takes up this Sunday’s reading from the Gospel of Mark: the story of . John the Baptist’s beheading (Mark 6:14-29). Dana appeals...
“When my son, Elijah, was about 12, he decided to read the Bible…from beginning to end…The Bible is full of stories of God’s people doing very strange and wrong things. He would come down the...
A05: The First Sunday after Christmas Day, Year A (2019)
“If the perfect Son of God were born into a perfect family, in a perfect way, in a perfect town, at a perfect time, then his message would probably only apply to perfect people,” says...
C06: The Epiphany of the Lord, Year C (2019)
Scott Spencer, New Testament scholar and author, preaches the story of the magi from Matthew 2:1-12. Spencer croons James Taylor’s “Home by Another Way” to highlight the choice of the magi. “They tell me that...
A04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A (2016)
Carla Pratt Keyes, Pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, preaches a sermon called “Emmanuel” from Matthew 1:18-25. God is with us, all right, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy. “To...