“Isn’t that Beautiful?”
Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, admits that he’s probably not the best person to be giving marital advice, and yet the kind of commitment marriage calls for is the...
You would expect Psalm 66 to invite Israel, God’s chosen people, to praise the Lord. However, in a surprisingly magnanimous gesture, the psalmist invites the whole earth to praise the God of Israel. Listen as...
A32: The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2017)
Rev. Rachel May takes on that difficult saying of Jesus, “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me” (Matthew 10:40-42), and especially the idea that those who welcome his disciples will be “rewarded.” What? Does Jesus have a...
C10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2016)
“Don’t you dare leave! Sometimes love looks like this!” Michael Renninger’s grandmother told him, as his paralyzed grandfather lay in bed covered in “green goop” from his feeding tube. This scene taught Renninger a lesson...
B43: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2015)
Brian McLaren, speaker, activist, and bestselling author of Faith after Doubt, Do I Stay Christian?, and, most recently, Life after Doom, preaches from Mark 9:30-37. He starts by explaining that, most often, we are riding...