Gospel: John 1:29-42 Come and see. In 1930 the 24-year-old pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, fresh from a stint ministering to a congregation of German expatriates in Barcelona, arrived in New York for a one-year residency at Union Theological Seminary. Having received…
Gospel: Matthew 3:13-17 I don’t remember my baptism. There are certain things I know about the event. I know it occurred a few months after my birth, in early 1970. I know it took place over the marble font at…
Gospel: Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 In the annual liturgical calendar there are seven principal Feast Days we observe: Easter Sunday; the Ascension; Pentecost; Trinity Sunday; All Saints’ Day; Christmas Day; and the one coming up on Tuesday, the Epiphany. The dates…
Gospel: John 1:1-18 In the beginning … was the Word. Before anything existed, long before the universe and the stars, long before this fragile earth and all that dwells on it, was a single Word. This Word – Logos –…
Gospel: Luke 2:1-20 Throughout the four weeks of Advent I tried to determine how, on this night, I’d talk about the birth of Jesus. Perhaps a new way of describing that remarkable moment would come to me. Maybe some new…