Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost Proper 27 Year C Haggai 1:15b-2:9 Psalm 145:1-5, 18-22 or Psalm 98 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38 Even as we are many years into the 21st century, there are still people who behave as if there are two kinds of citizens first class citizens and second-class citizens and that Blacks are…
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Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost Proper 26 Year C Luke 19: 1-10 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short…
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Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 25 Year C Luke 18:9-14 I have been doing an evening beach Eucharist for 16 years, and one busy Sunday years ago, I couldn’t find a place to park my truck. Consequently, I parked at a friend’s house that overlooks the ocean and walked a block or so to do…
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Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 24 Luke 18:1-8 Pandita Rambai (1858-1922) faced most of the obstacles a woman could encounter in the India of her lifetime. She was denied access to formal education and was ostracized from society as first an orphan and then a widow. She experienced first-hand the effects of India’s rigid caste system that placed discriminatory…
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I remember an occasion, while I was in seminary, getting sick but still needing to go to class … especially Hebrew. It soon became the inside joke of our Hebrew class that if you were sick and people needed to stay away, you announced as you were walking into class and sitting away from everyone…
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Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 22 Year C 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Paul’s correspondences with his young protégé Timothy sometimes leave us guessing. Why does Paul mention Timothy’s tears as something that brings him joy? Why does Paul feel the need to encourage Timothy? What was little Tim struggling with? Bible scholars are by no means…
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Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 21 Year C Luke 16:19-31 I liken the parable of the rich man and Lazarus to an acorn. It looks like such a small thing in our own hands, but within the words of Jesus this acorn is truly a mighty oak. Jesus holds within this short parable the mighty…
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Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 20 Year C Luke 16:1-13 Jesus says, “No one can serve two masters…you cannot serve God and wealth.” God or stuff: Which will it be? We can’t have it both ways. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus commends an unjust manager. He was not justifying his cheating but complimenting his…
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Proper 19 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, September 15, 2019 Year C Luke 15:1 – 10 The other day one of our parishioners came by to borrow a key from the office for work. She was going to do organizing in the shed out back. She got busy helping with a few other things inside and…
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Proper 18 Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, September 8, 2019 Year C Luke 14: 25-33 Born March 3, 1819, in New York City, Alexander Crummell struggled against racism all his life. As a young man, he was driven out of an academy in New Hampshire, dismissed as a candidate for Holy Orders in New York, and…
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