by Carol Burns | Feb 20, 2022
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin What is the relatively insignificant hill that you are most willing to die on? It’s a question that bubbles up on social media from time to time, which is a little ironic, given just how much of social media is taken up on a daily basis...
by Carol Burns | Feb 13, 2022
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin It always amazes me how little a story requires in order to be told. There’s a whole genre of six-word stories, which are exactly what they sound like: an entire story told in just six words. Stories like, “Found true love;...
by Carol Burns | Feb 6, 2022
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin This week the sermon title is “Throwing Jesus Away,” which comes from how our Scripture lesson for today ends, with an angry mob trying to throw Jesus off a cliff outside of Nazareth to his death on the rocks far below in the...
by Carol Burns | Jan 30, 2022
Listen A few days ago, probably in preparation for preaching on today’s Scripture passage, a pastor friend posed a simple question on Facebook: “What is love?” And the very first response that was posted was the same one that came to mind immediately for me, as well:...
by Carol Burns | Jan 23, 2022
Listen By The Rev. Lindsey Altvater Clifton “Repent, for the kingdom of God has come near!” Repent! I don’t know about you, but that phrase, that language, makes me a bit squirmy. I hear in it the echoes of misguided street preachers and see it’s familiar...
by Carol Burns | Jan 16, 2022
Listen By The Rev. J.C. Austin Recently, my son Liam and I finished watching the television show Battlestar Galactica, a science fiction show from the early-to-mid 2000s that is also routinely listed among the best television shows of that era, winning...
