Date: August 15, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 23:4a | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
Psalm 23 by Robert Alter The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. In grass meadows He makes me lie down, by quiet waters guides me. My life he brings back. He leads me on pathways of justice for his name’s sake. Though I walk inDate: August 8, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 23:3 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
Psalm 23 by Robert Alter The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. In grass meadows He makes me lie down, by quiet waters guides me. My life he brings back. He leads me on pathways of justice for his name’s sake. Though I walk in theDate: August 1, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 23:2 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
“Red Thyme” by Laura Ann Reed from How to Love the World, Poems of Gratitude and Hope In the red thyme that crawls languidly between stepping stones time stops as bees thrust their passion deep into the promise of tiny crimson-purple blooms. Where blossom ends and bee beginsDate: July 4, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 130 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, soDate: June 20, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 40 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
I urgently hoped for the Lord, who bent down toward me and heard my voice and brought me up from the roiling pit, from the thickest mire. And the Lord set my feet on a crag, made my steps firm. And put in my mouth a newDate: May 9, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 46 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
The Psalms have been with us for literally millennia. But just recently, scholar Robert Alter who teaches Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley offered up a new translation of the Psalms into English which reviewers say capture the simplicity, the physicality, and theDate: April 11, 2021
Bible Text: | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
8:30 a.m. ——9:30 a.m. ——10:30 a.m. ——11:30 a.m. ——Links to the Worship video, Confirmand's links below. Please pray with me: God of starlight and sunrise, we are grateful for each person here today.Date: April 1, 2021
Bible Text: John 18 and 19 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster, Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Bill: So the word from Paul Anthony Jones's clever collection of obsolete words that sort of popped intuitively and spontaneously into our imaginations for a Service of Tenebrae, a service of shadows, is the word ‘interfulgent’. It's an obsolete word, but if you took evenDate: March 21, 2021
Bible Text: John 12:20–36 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
Unless you’re truly a scholar of the Gospel of John, it’s likely today’s scripture passage will be—at least in part—unfamiliar. Yes, Jesus is speaking in parables, with familiar metaphors from nature. Yes Jesus is with his disciples. Yes Jesus is being followed by a crowd. This isDate: December 20, 2020
Bible Text: Luke 2:19 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
Even with its crushing pace and sometimes saccharine sentimentality, December is a poignant month, almost wistful. Like the buttery paper-thin layers of a croissant, every Christmas in living memory somehow stacks one on top of the other creating a rich warm tapestry of beauty. Or maybe more like a metamorphic rock formed by heat and