Advent Hope 2.0
December 7, 2025
2nd Sunday of Advent Year A
Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12
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1) Sean Winter, Fran Barber, Robyn Whitaker, “Episode A102 Advent 2: Isaiah 11:1-10 with
Sean Winter,” By the Well Podcast, November 24, 2019. Accessed 12/05/2025:
https://bythewell.com.au/episodes/a102-advent-2-isaiah-111-10-with-sean-winter
2) Robert C. Wright, “Not Optimism,” For Faith: A Weekly devotional from Bishop Rob Wright,
Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, December 5, 2025, Accessed 12/05/2025:
https://episcopalatlanta.org/for-faith/not-optimism/.
3) Fleming Rutledge, “God’s Cut-and-Fill Operation,” Advent: The Once and Future
Coming of Jesus Christ. Eerdmans, 2018, Kindle edition, Page 291, Location 5503
iv Ibid. Page 292, Location 5516.
NeighborGood
September 28, 2025
16th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 21 – Year C
Luke 16:19-31
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1 “Unlike National Pretzel Day, National Miniature Golf Day, or even April Fools Day, National
Good Neighbor Day is an actual holiday.” National Good Neighbor Day website. Accessed
09/27/2025: https://www.nationalgoodneighborday.org/history/
2 Helen Montgomery Debevoise, “Luke 16:19-31, Pastoral Perspective”, editors David L.
Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, Feasting on the Word— Year C, Volume 4: Season after
Pentecost 2 (Propers 17-Reign of Christ) (Feasting on the Word: Year C). Presbyterian
Publishing Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition. Page 315 · Location 4289.
3 David Burton, “’Good Fences Make Good Neighbors’” Misses the Point,” The Hopeful
Neighbor Project, Accessed 09/27/2025: https://www.hopefulneighborhood.org/blog/good-
fences-make-good-neighbors-misses-the-point/
4 National Good Neighbor Day website – History page.
A Call to Shrewdness
September 21, 2025
15th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 20 – Year C
Luke 16:1-13
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1 Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington III, “The Parable of the Dishonest Manager and the
Trapped Master,” The Gospel of Luke, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge: 2018), 444.
If You Can’t Stand the Heat…
September 7, 2025
13th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18 – Year C
Luke 14:25-33
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Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 15, 2023
1 Emilie Townes, “Luke 14: 25-33, Theological Perspective”, editors David L. Bartlett and
Barbara Brown Taylor, Feasting on the Word— Year C, Volume 4: Season after Pentecost 2
(Propers 17-Reign of Christ) (Feasting on the Word: Year C). Presbyterian Publishing
Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition. Page 129 · Location 1716, Page 130 · Location 1723.
2 Catherine Meeks, The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial
Healing. Church Publishing Incorporated, 2022. Kindle edition. Page 19 · Location 217.
3 Bernard Mokam, “Joseph McNeil, Young Spark in a Civil Rights Battle, Dies at 83,” New York
Times, September 5, 2025. Accessed 09/06/2025:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/joseph-mcneil-dead.html.
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