A52: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of Richmond’s First Mennonite Church, says, “unlike Aesop’s Fables, Jesus’s parables are not always easy to understand. Some of his parables are downright puzzling.” He finds today’s parable of the talents from...
B51: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
“Hannah, the central character in our biblical text, is honored by interpreters as a woman of faith, patience, and kindness,” begins Ginger Gaines-Cirelli, Senior Pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC. She continues,...
A52: Reign of Christ Sunday, Year A (2020)
“I was driving home one night…I pulled up to a stoplight. I noticed a woman running up to my car, right up to the window. With a look of desperation on her face, she asked...
B51: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2018)
The Rev. Lisa Cressman, Episcopal priest and founder of Backstory Preaching, takes a closer look at the story most of us know as “The Widow’s Mite” from Mark 12:38-44. Cressman uses lyrics from the musical...
C50: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
“It’s not everyday that the Bible makes a grown man cry. But I remember one day that it did. It was this passage from Luke’s gospel that did it,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s...