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Building a Temple for the Chosen People

Building a Temple for the Chosen People Pentecost 11, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman For at least 10,000 years we’ve been dividing ourselves into armed camps, absolutely certain that we are right, they are wrong, and we must vanquish them. As we do this, we tell ourselves a story about OUR kind: WE are THE chosen […]

Can We Kill Our Way Into Heaven?

Can We Kill Our Way Into Heaven? Pentecost 10 – Proper 15, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman Shall we kill our way into the Reign of God? In Monday’s Tampa Bay Times, there’s a link to an essay by Jesse Kelly, a Marine Corps veteran from Texas who asserts that all “good Americans” (a term he […]

Sermon-190811

Pentecost 9, Year C Deacon Cindy Roehl A small boy riding a bus home from Sunday school was very proud of the card he had received, which had a picture and a caption that read, “Have Faith in God.” Then to his dismay the card slipped from his hand and fluttered out the window. “Stop […]