C36: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
July 25, 2022
“Does it spark joy?” That’s what the star of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” wants to know about our possessions, and Jesus might agree. In this Sunday’s Gospel lesson he breaks the news that one’s...
C09: The Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
January 17, 2022
Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, begins today’s sermon with the poem “Lycanthropy of a Black Boy,” written by Richmond’s Poet Laureate, Roscoe Burnems. Keyes connects this poem to...
B45: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
September 27, 2021
“When my children were young…one of their favorite books to read was Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Do you know that book? Almost everything you can imagine goes wrong for...
B10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year B (2021)
January 25, 2021
“Those who gathered thought it was going to a normal day in the Capernaum synagogue,” begins Richard Voelz, Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage from Mark...
C02: The Second Sunday of Advent, Year C (2018)
December 3, 2018
The Rev. Sue Eaves, a retired Rector of the Episcopal Church, USA, was born in England, a country of lush, green, picturesque views almost completely different from those she saw while visiting the deserts of...