I grew up about thirty miles from here. I went to one school for kindergarten and first grade. Then I was redistricted and went to...

The Gospel story for this Sunday is violent-- even savage. It is a dark tale of greed, Betrayal. Beatings. Stoning. Murder. This story,...

There is a striking way in which persons who move away from their place of origin tend to set up a new home that even magnifies their old...

Early in the morning, the owner of a vineyard entered the marketplace to hire some workers for the day. This is a task that normally...

If we aren’t careful, we can get a little lost in the “math” of this story. If we don’t watch it, we might find ourselves crunching...

I’ve often wondered why Jesus chose to have two sets of brothers among the twelve disciples. There are Peter and Andrew and there are...

From a marketing standpoint this message is a complete disaster. “Who ever wishes to come after me must deny themselves, take up their...

HOMILY I Rev. Benjamin Roberts, DMin It all began with an invitation from the Lord Jesus. Walking by the Sea, the master called two sets...

Over the millennia, scholars and preachers have bent over backwards, and twisted themselves into pretzels to “explain” this story. They...

I’ve always been fascinated by words. And I’ve always loved questions. So it should not surprise you that a strange word that is also a...

St. Matthew begins his account of the Transfiguration with a calendar note. “Six days later,” he starts off. 1 This means that we need to...

One summer, my brother and our next-door neighbor became bored with Red Rover and tired of riding bikes. They had already traded every...

Jesus often spoke in parables and metaphors, describing God, God’s action in the world, and our own journey of discipleship in images and...

It was raining that evening, as I recall. Standing at the foot of my grandparents’ graves on the day of my grandmother’s burial. And I as...

“Now, here, you see,” said the Red Queen to Alice, “it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get...

If the Epistle Lesson sounds familiar this morning, it is because it should be. It is the same witness from St. Paul on Holy Baptism that...

These readings, as different as they may seem at first glance, all fire a warning shot across the bow of discipleship. They remind us...

In full disclosure, I have never preached for the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A. The last time we had this particular liturgical...

Living Bread. Living Father. Living forever. The discussion of living Bread in the Gospel of John comes smack in the middle of Jesus’...

In the early Middle Ages, there was a movement to develop a diagram that would explain the Holy Trinity. How are the Father, Son, and the...