--The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings: Jeremiah 15:15-21 Psalm 26:1-8 Romans 12:9-21 Matthew 16:21-28 Have you ever had an enemy? I know I...

Readings: Isaiah 51:1-6 Psalm 138 Romans 12:1-8 Matthew 16:13-20 Who are we? And who is Jesus? Our reading from Romans asks us if we know...

Readings: Isaiah 56:1,6-8 Psalm 67 Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32 Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 Next week, on August 28, is the 60th anniversary of...

Readings: 1 Kings 19:9-18 Psalm 85:8-13 Romans 10:5-15 Matthew 14:22-33 In the dawn of the mornings when I am first to rise, I let our...

Readings: Exodus 34:29-35 Psalm 99 2 Peter 1:13-21 Luke 9:28-36 When I was a kid, my mother bought me a little microscope at a hobby shop...

Today, I thought it might be fun to start with a little bit of show and tell. In your pews, you will find copies of an illustration on a...

Words are powerful things. They get inside us and change us. They combine together and create ideas, and those ideas can inspire us to...

I am pretty certain that, if you don’t remember hearing them and studying them before, the readings we just heard may have you a bit...

A pilot and a priest have died and are waiting in line outside the gates of Heaven for entry. When they reach the front of the line, St....

Today is a day of creation. In our readings we just heard, we were taken from the very first beginnings of this precious Earth upon which...

A group of rabbis gathered one day after a long day of studying the Book of Bereshit, which we call the Book of Genesis. The question...

In the week that I have spent here on the Mountain at Sewanee, I've only had a few moments to walk among the forests that surround the...

As I began to ponder these readings at the start of 2021 and the start of this week, there were two things that my mind associated with...

Sermon for Christmas Day 2020. It has been a most unusual year. It is only fitting then, that we begin our Christmas Day worship with the...

It usually happened every year of my childhood at the end of November or the first week of December. No matter what else is going on in...

The angel rode a rope of light down through the stars, and landed lighter than a dust mote right behind the old priest. Gabriel, whose...

The last six weeks and the last six months have found us in the wilderness of loss. We have interred two of our members, had a delayed...