The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost; Reformation Sunday Luke 19:1-10 The usual custom when a preacher or a would-be prophet is doing well out on the circuit, is for him to accept an invite from a pious local dignitary: someone upstanding, a pillar of the meeting-house, a bit of a connoisseur of the finer points of […]

Sunday, October 16, 2022: Jeremiah 31:27-34 Luke 18:1-8 Prayer is a layered and maybe even fraught topic these days, even amongst people within the Church. I expect there is a diversity in our prayer lives, and our experiences of prayer. Not to mention our thoughts on prayer, like how or if it works (or even […]

Another enigmatic parable from Jesus in the this Gospel we’ve been working through. It’s not particularly motivational, or inspiring. I don’t think it would really play well to the crowds. We’ll never seen it inside a Hallmark card. It’s not printed on big banners displayed at our church friends’ baptism or confirmation (nor piped in […]

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 […]