“We’ve Got a Marketing Problem”
February 19, 2024
The Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, author, activist, and former Senior Minister of the Riverside Church in New York City, preaches a sermon from the Gospel lesson for this Sunday from Mark 8:31-38. She begins: “You...
B48: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
October 18, 2021
“In the year 1889, after several days of torrential rain, the South Fork dam on the Little Conemaugh River catastrophically failed,” begins Jason Micheli, pastor of Annandale United Methodist Church in Annndale, Virginia. The city...
B47: The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
October 11, 2021
“In a book called The Critical Years, Sharon Parks writes about going to Harvard as a new chaplain.” At a reception, a professor shared with her how hard it had been to send his son...
A40: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
August 24, 2020
In Exodus 3:1-15, God tells Moses to get going in order to help the Israelite people escape Egypt and Pharaoh’s oppression. Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, in Richmond, Virginia says, “God’s...
A14: The First Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
February 24, 2020
Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church, Richmond, Virginia, begins by listing several temptations he faces…eating potato chips while watching TV, ordering a steak at a restaurant, buying a new sport coat or dress shirt,...