The picture is a wonderful reminder of a blessed time right after Easter one year when I travelled from my home in Scotland to Virginia to hang out out with another clergy friend. We talked, we laughed, we cried, we talked some more. It felt like walking the Emmaus Road, Jesus by our side, sharing… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Who Relates to Thomas Now?
Are you writing, huddled in your house, like the disciples in the Revised Common Lectionary (Discussion Here)? Are you waiting to see what happens next as Jesus ascends in the Narrative lectionary (Discussion Here)? Are you using a series or other passages to see you through these different times? Are you preparing technology for a… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Early in the Morning…
It’s the 11th Hour Preacher Party, but it’s hard to measure the 11th hour anymore. Some of us are recording services in advance. Some are still working on Good Friday services. Some are trying to figure out to hold an Easter Vigil. Regardless, on Sunday morning, while it is still dark, the women will go… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: waving palms
Whether you are waving palm branches from your front door, or waving the palms of your hands from your window, or colouring your paper palms for a virtual parade, you are welcome here! Share your ideas, your half-finished phrases, your hopes for this festival day like no other. I’ve got a nice stash of Percy… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party:Apocalypse and Resurrection
At first glance, the Lectionary texts for both the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary are ones we might want to shy away from in our current pandemic crisis. But a second glance serves to convince us that they are just right for speaking into the weirdness and tragedy of our world today. There’s… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: A Long Lent continues
I think it’s Lent 4. What are you doing for this long sequestered Lent that we are experiencing? Are you streaming or zooming or recording? We cancelled late in the week last week and ended up not doing anything, so we recorded an abbreviated version of Lent 3 for this week and will go on… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Lent 3
Third Sunday of Lent. C’mon, friends, we can do it! Revised Common Lectionary and Narrative Lectionary posts are ready for your perusal. Or maybe you’re doing a series for Lent. Or maybe there’s a choir program. Whatever the case, you’re welcome at the 11th Hour Preacher Party, as always! Share ideas, concerns, and/or questions. And… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party — Lenting it up
It’s time again to sermonise! For this second Sunday in Lent, what are you up to? The RCL offers us a variety of ways to lift our eyes to a new way…..the NL ponders what our answer might be if Jesus asked us “What do you want me to do for you?” Or perhaps you’re… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Lenten Traditions
This first Sunday in Lent, what is changing for you? Are there particular traditions that you follow this season of the liturgical year – things you take up or things you leave out of worship? In my tradition, we won’t sing the Gloria again until the Easter vigil – and by that time, way, way… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: T-Fig
It’s the last Sunday before Lent. Are you burying or otherwise saying farewell to the alleluia? Will you be preaching the Transfiguration? Revised Common Lectionary folks can find a discussion of Matthew’s text here. The post includes an interrogation of the Light/Dark imagery in the passage, and offers ways to approach it. Narrative Lectionary folks can… Read More
