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Mild mannered high school chemistry teacher Walter White thinks his life can’t get much worse. His salary barely makes ends meet, a...

The opening sentences of this Gospel should in no way surprise us. It seems quite timely to me given the horror of what we are watching...

An Episcopal priest and a Baptist pastor—both from the local churches—are standing by the side of a heavily traveled road pounding a sign...

Temptation. It’s well-known part of living and there’s no way to escape it. Irish playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde famously suggested...

The first reading today from the book of Joel with its language about darkness, gloom and clouds certainly seems right for the state of...

Very, very strange. How else could one describe it? The three witnesses of this event were so terrified that they kept silent and told no...

Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who abuse you. To someone who tells us to “go...

One thing that we know for sure about Jesus: he knew how to gather a crowd. We find these words “crowd” and “multitude” a lot in the...

Many years ago, someone asked me if it were okay to have a good time in church on Sunday. Well, I certainly hope none of us is here to...

This is a Gospel that requires some serious unpacking. We don’t do it justice if we just stick with “Oh well, a prophet just can’t make...

After his baptism in the Jordan, Jesus begins to move about Galilee and his reputation grows quickly. When he returns to his hometown,...

When Johnny Carson hosted the Tonight Show he interviewed an eight-year-old boy who was asked to appear because he had rescued two...

One of the favorite images of Christmas is that of the Magi travelling by camel through a star lit night. One brilliant star dominates...

The Massacre of the Innocents is the biblical narrative of infanticide by Herod the Great, the Roman-appointed King of the Jews....

But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for see-- I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this...

My bad. My opener in this week’s Constant Contact talked about the Annunciation. Well, that’s the Gospel on the fourth Sunday of...

“Rejoice!” so we are told today. It’s a directive we find in two of the lessons, the canticle, and our communion anthem. It’s not a word...

In his Novel, Enduring Love, author Ian McEwan tells about an Oxford professor, a very rational and modern sort of man, who liked his...

In the Name of our God who is all kindness, Christ who reigns in justice, and the Holy Spirit who recreates our every moment. Amen The...

Scary stuff in this Gospel! It is not a pleasant reading. Who wants to focus on the signs of the end times? Historians think that...