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Sunday sermons from St. John’s Episcopal Church, a growing, vibrant, inclusive community in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
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The Eleventh Hour (opens the original)
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The landowner in today’s parable behaves more or less like you’d expect an ancient vineyard-owner to behave, at first. He sets out early in the morning, so that he doesn’t lose any of the precious daylight hours. He hires day laborers who are standing in the marketplace, because he needs extra help at harvest time. And he makes a deal to pay them the typical daily wage. A few hours later, he goes back to the market. He hires more workers and sends them to work as well, and he tells them he’ll pa
The Gospel According to Charlie Brown? (opens the original)
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On December 16, 1956, a young woman made American cultural history with a nothing but a football, a helmet, and a dream. In the eyes of the world, her job that day was simply to hold the ball for a kicker. And she did. As the kicker ran forward at full speed, she carefully held the ball in place; as his leg swung back, she remained focused on the plan; and then, as the kicker’s foot flew forward, she pulled the ball away, and—WHOMP. History was made. For the first time ever, Lucy van Pelt had pu
The Bible and the Recipe Book (opens the original)
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When Alice and I were married, one of my mother’s oldest friends gave us a wedding gift: a binder full of some of her family’s favorite recipes, with plenty of empty plastic page protectors for us to add our own. I’ve put a few recipes in there over the years, but I have to admit I’m not good at keeping up with it; in part because, try as I might, I can never seem to keep a printer working for more than a couple months at a time. Anyway, as a result, I often find myself cooking from recipes that
The Ministry of Small Talk (opens the original)
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The Presbyterian minister Eugene Peterson once wrote an essay entitled “The Ministry of Small Talk.” He begins it with a story from his youth: “My pastor, during my adolescent years [in the late ’40s] came often to our home. After a brief and awkward interval, he always said, ‘And how are things in your SOUL today?’ (He always pronounced ‘soul’ in capital letters.)” Teenage Eugene never said much; his ordinary thoughts and experiences, he writes, “seemed small potatoes after that question. I kne
What’s in a Name? (opens the original)
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Who gave you your name? Do you go by the name your parents gave you at your birth? Is it a nickname that you got along the way? Is your name really your middle name? Has it changed, by marriage or by choice? Did it take time for you to discover what your true name really was? Do different people call you different things? (I can think of a number of people I know who affectionately call their spouses by their full, legal names, and not the nicknames everyone else uses.) I’m named “Greg” in part
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