C19: The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year C (2022)
March 28, 2022
“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return…This season we are in the thick of now is one that confronts our mortality head on. Death is part of our living. To be...
C15: The First Sunday in Lent, Year C (2022)
February 28, 2022
“It makes light of the temptation of Jesus, doesn’t it, to compare it to that feeling we have when the waiter asks us if we’d like to see a dessert menu? Yes, we’d like to...
C13: The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
February 14, 2022
“Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who abuse you.” These words from today’s passage, Luke 6:27-38, are probably the most “radical, ridiculous, and...
B50: The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
November 1, 2021
When it comes to immigration, our country and many other countries wrestle with the question of “who can be included and who should be excluded,” begins Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church of Richmond,...
B46: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
October 4, 2021
“Have you ever felt used? It’s a crummy feeling to be treated as a pawn or stepping stone in someone’s plan, as an unwilling object used for another’s benefit or pleasure. It’s dehumanizing and it’s...