Message of Blessing
Date: April 11, 2021
Bible Text: | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
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Cabinet of Colloquial Curiosities, VII: Eucatastrophe
Date: 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. SheCabinet of Colloquial Curiosities, VI: Interfulgent
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 evenCabinet of Colloquial Curiosities, V: Dolorifuge
Date: 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 theCabinet of Colloquial Curiosities, IV: Respair
Date: 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 isCabinet of Colloquial Curiosities, III: Aphercotropism
Date: 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,Cabinet of Colloquial Curiosities, II: Druery
Date: March 7, 2021
Bible Text: John 4:1–42 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
I think the story of the Samaritan Woman at the Well is so beloved because in this single vivid snapshot of a wounded woman, John shows us how Jesus constantly, relentlessly, routinely reaches out to touch and heal the least, the last, the lost, the lame, the leper, the loser, and theCabinet of Colloquial Curiosities, I: Zenobia
Date: February 28, 2021
Bible Text: John 1:43–51 | 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, but which might nonetheless speak a word ofBetter
Date: February 21, 2021
Bible Text: Mark 1:12 | Rev. Dr. Nicholas A. Pearce
Eternal God how excellent is your name in all the earth we give you honor and glory for the gift of this day and for the gift of this time of worship. We pray now that as we approach your word, which is a lamp unto our feet, and light unto our pathway, that youOut of the Dust
Date: February 17, 2021
Bible Text: Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21 | Reverend Christine V. Hides
“Remember you are dust.” we say to ourselves on the threshold of Lent, as if we could overlook the frailty and fragility of life during a pandemic. The phases and tiers of reopening, the positivity rates and ICU bed availability, so many numbers that rise and fall and spiral as the months wear on into