The Strength of Those Who Believe and the Hope of Those Who Doubt 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year A (Second Sunday After Easter) Becky Robbins-Penniman Alleluia, Christ is risen! The Lord is risen, indeed! Alleluia! I’ve been thinking that this COVID 19 pandemic needs a patron saint, and I think we couldn’t do better than […]
UBUNTU 6th Sunday after Easter, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman Are you “liberal” or “conservative”? Are you pro-choice or pro-life? Are you Evangelical or Progressive? Are you a Yankee or a Southerner? Are you pro-NRA or pro-gun control? Are you about Black lives or Blue lives mattering? Anti-vaxer or vaccinator? Is climate destabilization real or […]
Expect His Abundance 4th Sunday after Easter, Year C Deacon Cindy Roehl In our Gathering Prayer this morning we prayed: We gather in the name of our Easter God: Our Risen Lord transforms darkness into light, hatred into tolerance, despair into hope. Much of the time, our lives are a compromise between happiness and sorrow, joy […]
Jesus Loves Me, This I Know 4th Sunday after Easter, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman If you hang out with academic theologians – something I’m not going actually recommend to you, but I used to love doing it – and ask them who THE most important theologian of the 20th Century was, Swiss theologian Karl Barth will […]
The Knock on the Door 3rd Sunday after Easter, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman Discipline. What notions come into our minds when I say that word? Mostly, it’s about giving up things we like or our comfortable with, like french fries or doing things we’d rather not do, like exercising. The word “disciple” has a slightly different […]
Do You Love Me? 2nd Sunday after Easter, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman The core of Christianity is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. The church year has two basic parts: the Christmas cycle, when we hear the prophecies about the coming Messiah, the birth of that Messiah, the Christ, and the revelation that […]
Resurrection Changes 1st Sunday after Easter, Year C Deacon Cindy Roehl