Holy Cheetos! Pentecost 15, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman Sometimes, Jesus makes us work really hard to figure out what he’s saying. The moral of the stories he tells in this passage is pretty obvious: there is joy in heaven when a sinner changes both heart and life. At first glance, who is causing all the […]
Do I Really Have To Hate You? Pentecost 13, Proper 18, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman I hate you. It seems really, really odd for me to stand up here on a Sunday morning. and say that to you, my brothers and sisters in Christ. But, well, Jesus says I have to hate you. I […]
Not Again. What Do I Say This Time? Labor Day Pentecost 12, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman I had a great preaching teacher in seminary, Dr. Paul Harms. Dr. Harms said that none of our parishioners was at all interested in the process that we used in coming up with our sermons. I am quite sure […]
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? 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 […]
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 […]
Pentecost 8, Proper 13, Year C Fr. Bob Wagenseil Way back in the 1990s, I was appointed by my Bishop, the Bishop of Long Island, to serve as Archdeacon of Queens; and part of that job description took me on a pastoral visit to Liberia West Africa. I spent ten days in that beautiful nation […]
Lord, Teach Us To Pray Pentecost 7, Proper 12, Year C Fr. Bob Wagenseil So, a New York City Taxi Cab driver and a retired Episcopal priest both die within seconds of each other and arrive at the pearly gates. The priest noticed that Saint Peter was looking at the taxi driver very carefully and […]
Bless or Blast? Pentecost 3, Year C Becky Robbins-Penniman Last time I spoke with you, I implored you to get up! go do some frolicking because the nature of our Triune God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit begins with Wisdom, and the Divine Wisdom is that the origin and destiny of […]
Pentecost 2, Year C Deacon Cindy Roehl
