C50: All Saints’ Sunday, Year C (2022)
October 31, 2022
Rev. Dr. Courtney Allen Crump, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia begins with the story of a man who visited a monastery in hopes of learning how to live a more holy life....
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...
C50: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
November 4, 2019
Perhaps one of the most debated topics in Christianity is death and the afterlife. Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church in Richmond, Virginia, asks, “Is it either you trust in life after death or...
B48: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2018)
October 15, 2018
In today’s sermon, Ginger Gaines-Cirelli, Senior Pastor of the historic Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC, preaches on Mark 10:35-45. She says, “What Jesus teaches challenges anyone with privilege, anyone who has power over...
C47: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
October 6, 2016
Dr. Valerie Carter Smith, Executive Director of the Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia, is herself a “persistent widow.” While her minister husband was alive, he did most of the talking, but now it is Valerie...