The Last Lesson

March 28, 2024

Church of the Servant

Maundy Thursday
John 13:1-17, 31b-35

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foot washing

 

Lent: The Season of Listening

February 18, 2024

Church of the Servant

1st Sunday in Lent
Psalm 25:1-9; Mark 1:9-15

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A Quilted Life

Under the Covers

Listen with the ear of the heart

Sources:

Anderson, Luleen S. Under The Covers: Discovering the Crazy Quilt of Life, 2017. Kindle edition. Location 62.

Meeks, Catherine. A Quilted Life: Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI (2024), xii-xiii.

Plummer, Don. “Dr. Catherine Meeks: A Lifetime of Working for Racial Healing,” June 6, 2023. Diocese of Atlanta.https://episcopalatlanta.org/news/catherine-meeks-lifetime/ Accessed: Feb. 17, 2024.

Advocacy Depends on Hope

September 24, 2023

Church of the Servant

17th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20 - Year A - Creation Liturgy
Jonah 3:10-4:11; Philippians 1:21-30; Matthew 20:1-16

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season of creation

For God So Loved the World

Hope is a verb

Sources:

Catherine Meeks, The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing (Church Publishing Incorporated, 2022), Kindle edition, 122.

David Orr, Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 115.

Don’t Quarrel. Do Good.

September 17, 2023

Church of the Servant

16th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 19 - Year A - Creation Liturgy
Romans 14:1-12; Matthew 18:21-25

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season of creation

Welcome

Elizabeth I

wendell berry quote about earth

work for peace

Sources:

Season of Creation: A Celebration Guide for Episcopal Parishes 2023, the Rev. John Elliott Lein and the Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas assemblers.

Wendell Berry,

Pope John Paul II Pastoral Letter