Today is the last Sunday in the liturgical/church year. Next Sunday a new year begins with the first Sunday of Advent. The last Sunday of the church year is called Christ the King or Reign of Christ Sunday. When I think of kings or of people reigning my first thought is always to the historical…
This Sunday is Restorative Justice Sunday but, in the end, I was not able to come up with a sermon up to the task; so, I went in a different direction. The Lectionary texts prodded me to think about what we should do. This was the beginning of the process that got me to “How…
Today is Remembrance Sunday. It isn’t Remembrance Day, that’s November 11, of course, but St. Mark’s has a tradition of marking Remembrance Day on the last Sunday before November 11. As I read the texts for this Sunday, in more than one translation, one word kept coming up for me, “vindication.” Vindication is one of…