A08: The Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A (2017)
January 5, 2017
Father Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, and one of our most popular preachers, preaches a sermon from John 1:29-42 called, “Love Gives Its Best,” because it’s true: when you...
C40: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
June 20, 2016
“Imagine that your new pastor shows up disguised as a homeless man with a ‘Duck Dynasty’ kind of beard and a matching T-shirt…wearing old shorts that have holes in them, and if you got too...
C22: The Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C (2016)
April 12, 2016
After several painful meetings in which the new leadership at the monastery where I was living gave me long lists of why I would never be a good priest, I asked the newest leader the...
C10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2016)
January 31, 2016
“Don’t you dare leave! Sometimes love looks like this!” Michael Renninger’s grandmother told him, as his paralyzed grandfather lay in bed covered in “green goop” from his feeding tube. This scene taught Renninger a lesson...
B24: The Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B (2015)
May 10, 2015
Dr. Lauren Winner, Episcopal priest and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School preaches a sermon from John 15:9-17 called, “A Little Trite, Don’t You Think?” She begins, “When I opened the lectionary...