Sunday, September 25, 2022: Luke 16:19-31 A while back a fe people from our parish and diocese read one, or in some cases, two, novels from the ’90s by Octavia Butler: The Parable of the Sower and the Parable of the Talents. Both are classified as ‘dystopian fiction’ — novels about the future of our […]
Continue Reading: The Great, Cold Distance: The Sixteenth Sunday after PentecostCategory Archives: Matthew Kieswetter
As many folks here know, one of the things I like to do is look at movies through the lens of our faith, hence the monthly or so movie discussions that our church hosts on the internet. And before I came to St. Andrew’s Leslie and I hosted movie nights at our old church. There […]
Continue Reading: A Dastardly Character, a Confusing Parable: The Fifteenth Sunday after PentecostSunday, September 11, 2022: Luke 15:1-10 There was one summer a bit less than ten years ago when I was on an internship just north of Sauble Beach and Wiarton. [My wife] Leslie’s birthday is at the end of July, and she was up visiting. The tourism board was running a campaign that year where […]
Continue Reading: What Once Was Lost…: The Fourteenth Sunday after PentecostSunday, September 4, 2022: Jeremiah 18:1-11 Luke 14:25-33 I have a couple of boxes under my desk in my office, where I keep all my old sermons, and notes, and other related things. That way I figure I don’t always have to reinvent the wheel, especially when there’s a particularly tough reading. I’ve been here […]
Continue Reading: Counting the Cost of Discipleship: The Thirteenth Sunday after PentecostSunday, August 28, 2022: Jeremiah 2:4-13 Luke 14:1, 7-14 I remember one very hot and exhausting evening probably around ten years ago, I was part of a small group that had just helped friends with a move — or not even close friends, somewhere between an acquaintance and friend, and now, one of them is […]
Continue Reading: Where is the Lord (in the banquet hall)?: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost