“No One Leaves Home Unless…”
Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, begins this Sunday’s sermon with a quote from the poem, “Home,” by Warsan Shire: “No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a...
Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester, Virginia begins today’s sermon by admitting that she doesn’t like tension in movies or book plots. She admits that sometimes she’ll skip to the...
C51: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
“It amuses me to see that the word ‘busybodies’ shows up in the Bible at all! It’s such a funny word…makes you wonder what sort of trouble a first century busybody would create,” says Carla...
B49: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
The poem, “Home,” by Warsan Shire, a British writer born to Somali parents in Kenya begins, “No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark.” The poem continues, “You have to understand,/that no...
A50: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
Rev. Amy Starr Redwine, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia, introduces today’s scripture passage from Amos 5:18-24 with the following story. She says, “Long ago, there was a community that did not think of...