On the Third Sunday of Advent, Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary gives us Luke 1:26-38. It is the story of “the Annunciation,” nine months before Christmas. But we are in December, chronologically only a week-and-a-half before Mary will give birth. It’s all good. Advent is an excellent time to think about the promise […]
Not the Light — John 1:6-8, 19-28
The discussion of John the Baptist as “not the light” but rather “a witness to testify to the light” is missing its context. In year C, the Gospel for the third Sunday of Advent is John 1:6-8 and 19-28, the parts of Gospel’s prologue about John the Baptist, and leaving out the parts directly about […]
The Zoom Christmas Pageant!
Okay, it’s December. It’s Advent. Christmas is coming. But it’s also a pandemic, and church is back to being online, not in person. How are we going to have a Christmas pageant? It’s time for the Zoom Christmas Pageant! The Zoom Christmas Pageant! A few years back I wrote a Christmas play. Better to say […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Trinity, Matthew 28:16-20
The Sunday after Pentecost is called “Trinity Sunday” in the West. If you frequent Orthodox churches you will know that pretty much every Sunday (really every single service in the year) is about the Holy Trinity. In the West we tend to need the annual reminder of the nature of the God we worship — […]
Pentecost: A Children’s Sermon on Acts 2:1-21
The story of the first Christian Pentecost is full of evocative details, just waiting for a storyteller to draw them out. If you want the children to hear only what is explicitly on the page, better than a Children’s Sermon on Acts 2:1-21, you might want to read the text to them. I think, however, it […]
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