“Don’t Other. Smother.” (C48: Proper 25)
Joel 2:23-32 and Psalm 65; Sirach 35:12-17 or Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22 and Psalm 84:1-7; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14 Whitaker uses her Aunt Joy, who is a “smotherer,” to call listeners to love and...
C49: The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
If you attended Sunday School as a child, you probably know today’s story well. “Zacchaeus was a wee little man and a wee little man was he. He climbed up in a sycamore tree for...
C48: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
“Two men went up to the temple to pray…and one went down to his home justified. In between is a story that most of us find pretty straightforward,” says David Lose, Senior Pastor of Mount...
C48: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
“Whenever a parable seems this clear, this obvious, this straightforward, it most definitely is not,” says Rev. Mandy England Cole, in regard to the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector from Luke 18:9-14....