So far, on my sabbatical, I have only missed my second Sunday. Three if you count Covid-Christmas-Day! What possible stories could I have to tell after only 10 days? Well no story in particular really. More so, I want to share with you the serendipitous nature of storytelling itself that has saturated my first week…
The biblical story of the Transfiguration (Luke 9:28-43a) — proclaimed today – appears in each of the four Gospels as an important moment in the life of Jesus and as evidence of His divinity. After Jesus performs a series of miracles and foretells His own death, Jesus leads just three of His disciples, Peter, James…
Be present in my words, oh God, and in all our hearts. Amen. Typically, preachers always look to the lessons for the week for their sermons. The Old Testament, New Testament, or most commonly, the Gospel. But each week, part of our Lectionary – the selected daily readings in the Episcopal Church – is also…
How many of you remember A Fish Out of Water? I know that I am dating myself here, the book was published in 1961. Written by Helen Palmer, it was based on a short story, Gustav, the Goldfish, by her husband Theodor Geisel. (Yes, that Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss!) Now Helen Palmer was a very…
The nutshell translation of Sunday’s gospel, Luke 4:21-30, is that Jesus had been preaching, teaching, healing, turning water into wine, and other miracles – and he had made a name for himself because of it all. So, when he shows up back home in Nazareth, those people who knew Jesus from back in the day…
Let me tell you a reimagined bible story by Rabbi Marc Gellman. ‘The first to hear the Torah, the first to receive God’s law was Moses. Moses went up on a mountaintop and tried to capture on a couple tablets of stone the commandments of God. Now, a rabbi tells us that when Moses got up…
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is…
They visited. They worshiped. They prayed. They sang. They saved the bulletin. Who are they? They are a UK couple who took a once in a lifetime cruise to the United States. Docked in D.C., they ventured into Alexandria and came to church. Our church, Emmanuel. Cleaning out her parents’ South Hampton, England home, their granddaughter, Jo Ashley, found…
January 6. A day of Epiphany in more ways than one. On the liturgical calendar, January 6 is the most ancient day for celebrating the birth of Jesus. ‘Tis the day of his birthday party when the three kings traversed afar and followed a star and brought him three gifts. It is the 12th of…
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“As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.” I speak to you in the name of one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Mark is the shortest of the four gospels, lasting only…
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