Monthly Archives: April 2011
An old story told in a whole new way
Jamie Howison tells of Maundy Thursday in the soup kitchen T his year, Maundy Thursday was a little different for the congregations of saint benedict’s table and All Saints Church. For several years we’ve shared together in a Maundy Thursday
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Engaging Good Friday
a sermon for Good Friday, on the text Matthew 27:11-61 F or all of the pain and passion of the gospel narrative that we’ve just heard read, we need to be frank. We listen to the story of the crucifixion
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Surely not me, Lord?
A sermon for Palm Sunday A note from Jamie Howison: Palm Sunday is one of the few times during the year that we depart significantly from the readings set out in the lectionary cycle. Whereas the lectionary has the church
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I’d rather eat chips
For our April 13 Wednesday evening Lenten service, Kalyn Falk offered the following reflection on the them of finding bread in the wilderness. Along with her husband David and two sons Jase and Noah, Kalyn has been a part of
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Sometime I Feel Like a Motherless Child
T he other night in worship, one of the songs that our anchoring music guy Larry Campbell had us singing during communion was “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” a song deeply rooted in the slave church tradition of
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Lazarus, come out!
a sermon on John 11:1-53 T he theologian and bishop Charles Gore (1853-1932) once told a friend that he always felt that when he read the Gospel according to John he was paying a visit to a fascinating foreign country,
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Bread for the Journey
For our April 6 Wednesday evening Lenten service,Rachel Twigg Boyce offered the following reflection on the surprising gift stability. Rachel the founding director/”abbot” of House Blend Ministries, an intentional community in the West Broadway neighborhood exploring the “new monasticism.” The reflection
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Who sinned?
a sermon on John 9:1-41 T his gospel narrative is framed by two questions; one asked quite explicitly—“who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”—and the other asked implicitly—who is blind? The first question has to
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Turning mammon into manna (in the wilderness)
For our March 30 Wednesday evening Lenten service, the following reflection was offered by Pierre Plourde, with a poetic response written by his daughter Nadine. The reflection opened with a reading of 1 Timothy 6:6-19. We will be adding an
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Resurrection: past, present, future
a sermon on Jeremiah 31:1-6 and John 20:1-18 A lleluia! Christ is risen! After the forty days of Lent, after telling the hard stories of Holy Week, after observing the story of the passion here on Good Friday, the doors