Sermons

When I was in fourth grade, my parents enrolled me in the local Catholic school. The funny thing was that I wasn’t Catholic. But the parochial system offered a better education than the public schools. If I had any doubt about that, it was made abundantly clear on my first day when I simply couldn’t keep up with all of the other kids shouting...

Though one might think that pledging is not about zeal for Christ and the Gospel and more about maintaining an institution, Paul’s letters suggest otherwise. The later letters say almost nothing about giving money to God and God’s work...

At first glance, today’s Gospel story of Jesus healing the ten lepers might look less like a specifically Christian teaching and more like a morality tale. While Luke is a master story teller, and though Luke’s stories often do have a readily-grasped teaching or moral, to regard Luke merely as a gifted teller of moral stories is to underestimate Luke...

In the scriptures, grandmothers are exceedingly rare. Today’s epistle tells of the New Testament’s only-known grandmother. In his second letter to Timothy, Paul writes...

“Sin is the fire alarm that wakes us up to the possibility of true repentance,” Barbara Brown Taylor says. Before sin, however, first I want to speak of shoes...