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The Jerusalem Gazette splashed the headline and story all over the front page: Miracle Feeding by local Rabbi Astonishes Thousands....

A conversation that is happening among clergy these days is how will COVID19 affect our churches in the short and long term. Will a good...

Well, well, well. That was a cheerful Gospel story, wasn’t it? What on earth are we supposed to learn from a grisly account of John the...

“And they took offense at him.” In the movie Last Holiday, Queen Latifah plays the role of Georgia Byrd, a sales clerk at a New Orleans...

Two stories. Two unrelated people. Two different circumstances. Two surprising conclusions. That is the sandwich that Mark’s Gospel...

Storms teach us we are not always in control of life. It sounds like this may be another active hurricane season. When warnings of an...

The Reverend Barbara Brown Taylor tells her own version of this parable of the seeds. This is her interpretation: “At my house there is a...

In the opening verses of today’s reading, Jesus has returned home to Nazareth for a time of respite from the crowds that press upon him...

If we are going to talk about such a deep and complicated theological belief as the doctrine of the Trinity, I think we need to start out...

Several years ago a group of Episcopalians looking at the reasons churches grow, plateau, or decline and why that happens, met at The...

We never know what’s coming our way next, do we? We can plan well and plan far ahead. We can take precautions in advance of possible...

“I have called you friends.” The dictionary definition of “friend” includes these two descriptions: A) A person whom one knows, likes,...

A prophet once came to a city to convert its inhabitants. At first, people listened to his sermons, but gradually drifted away until no...

What would your picture of God look like? I’ll bet most of us have photos of our loved ones on our desk or in our wallet or maybe as or...

Have you ever felt betrayed? Has someone you trusted thrown you under the bus? Was there ever a time when someone denied knowing you?...

Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief that involves uncertainty or distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, action,...

Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! Michael Patrick O’Malley, Jr. opened the morning newspaper and was...

In the spring of 33 AD, there was a strange procession in Jerusalem. An unemployed, homeless young Rabbi entered the city on a donkey...

The setting for today’s Gospel narrative is the Feast of Passover where people have come to the city from many parts of the world. The...

The scriptures this morning present images of two things I very much dislike: snakes and darkness. I have never understood someone’s...