Date: 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: May 2, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 74 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
O God, why do you cast us off forever? Your foes have roared within your holy place; they set up their emblems there. At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes. And then, with hatchets and hammers, they smashed all its carved work. TheyDate: April 25, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 27 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Howard Thurman, author of the Opening Prayer for the Easter Season, was a Christian prophetic mystic and pastor for the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King famously carried with him wherever he went a Bible, a copy of the constitution and a copy of Howard Thurman’s book, “JesusDate: April 18, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 1 | Reverend Christine V. Hides
Bill, Katie, and I are excited to begin a new sermon series beginning today. Each week we will highlight one of the groups extraordinary, faithful individuals, whose faces shine through the Malott chapel windows upstairs. The title of this sermon series is taken from the eulogy honoring today’sDate: 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. ForDate: April 4, 2021
Bible Text: John 20:1–18 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
According to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus baffled Mary Magdalene. “I don’t know how to love him,” she sings. But that isn’t really true, is it? She did know how to love him, maybe better than anyone else in the Gospels besides Mother Mary herself. SheDate: 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 28, 2021
Bible Text: John 11:28–57; John 12:12–19 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to theDate: 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: March 14, 2021
Bible Text: John 5:1–9 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
The inspiration for our Lenten Sermon Series at Kenilworth Union comes from Paul Anthony Jones’ The Cabinet of Calm: Soothing Words for Troubled Times (2020), where this British author compiles 51 mostly extinct English words that for various reasons faded from our common vocabulary over the centuries,