Interrupting the Silence

Tag: Proper 24C

  • What About The Unjust Widow? – A Sermon On Luke 18:1-8

    What About The Unjust Widow? – A Sermon On Luke 18:1-8

    We know today’s gospel (Luke 18:1-8) as the parable of the unjust judge. One implication of that title is that the widow is just. Maybe she is. But I’m not convinced. That makes the story too clean and easy. So I struggle with this story. I think it is a difficult and challenging story because Read more

  • Wrestling for a New Name and a New Life, A Sermon on Genesis 32:22-31

    Wrestling for a New Name and a New Life, A Sermon on Genesis 32:22-31

    “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.” Do you remember that one? Or how about this one? “I’m rubber you’re glue whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.” Maybe you said those things to yourself growing up. Maybe you shouted them back at someone else. Maybe Read more

  • Overruling The Unjust Judge – A Sermon On Luke 18:1-8

    The collect and readings for the Twenty-first Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 24C, may be found here. The appointed gospel is Luke 18:1-8. Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had Read more