C06: The Second Sunday after Christmas Day, Year C (2022)
“My mother would tell you, flat out, that her favorite Gospel was the Gospel of John…A lot of people agree,” begins Scott Spencer, author and New Testament scholar. He continues, “It’s hard to match John’s...
B39: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
Today’s passage from Ephesians 6:10-20 “…sounds like every call to arms that anyone has ever made. There’s a compelling call to unity, a clear identification of the enemy, an urgent description of what is at...
B20: The Second Sunday of Easter, Year B (2021)
“First John is a tiny little letter. Just 5 short chapters long. It is so brief a piece of correspondence that if you are not careful you will skip right over it…It is also that...
B06: The Epiphany of the Lord, Year B (2021)
“All of a sudden, everything got dark. It was Christmas Eve, many years ago…This year, we had decorated our tree with twinkle lights…We had never seen anything like it…And neither had our cat…Before we knew...
A47: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
In Matthew 22:15-22, the Pharisees tried to trick Jesus by asking him about paying taxes. His answer is familiar to us. “Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God...