Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, Lectionary 13(B) – Mark 5:21-43 We are not going to talk about racism today. Early in this week, I received, along with all the other clergy members of the ELCA, a request from our Presiding Bishop, Elizabeth Eaton, to make this Sunday a day of repentance and mourning after the tragic […]
Third Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 6B) – Ezekiel 17:22-24, Mark 4:26-34 When the first European settlers came to New England, they found incredible diversity of creation here, plants and animals unlike any in the lands they’d left behind. One example: In the early days of America, over 200 different varieties of apples were identified and […]
Funeral for Maggie Burke – Revelation 21:1-7, Mark 10:13-16 Maggie was a wonderful teacher. I never really got to see her in action, though I do remember her passing through the hallway outside my office with toddlers in tow countless times. She always struck me as a sweet, loving, grandmotherly type, an image I know […]