August 10, 2025 – 9th Sunday After Pentecost
Genesis 15:1-6; Psalm 33:12-22; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Faith and fear—two forces with which so many of us wrestle. “Have faith” is easy to say, yet so difficult to live. How often do we allow our troubles and struggles to overwhelm us, dampening our hopes, and causing our faith to […]
July 20, 2025 – 6th Sunday After Pentecost
Amos 8:1-12; Psalm 52; Colossians 1:15-28; Luke 10:38-42 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Preachers of a certain era, hear this gospel and immediately think, “Martha, Martha, Martha!” which is a reflection of the whininess of Jan Brady as she complains about her older sister Marcia. Of course, in today’s Gospel, it’s the older sister, Martha, who […]
July 13, 2025 – 5th Sunday After Pentecost
Deuteronomy 30:9-14; Psalm 25:1-9; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Jesus has been pretty busy since his Ascension. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been retracing his early ministry—through Galilee and even into Samaria. Though his efforts in Samaria weren’t especially fruitful, it’s important to understand the fraught relationship between Samaria and Judea […]
June 29, 2025 – 3 Pentecost 8A
I Kings 19:15-16, 19-21; Psalm 16; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-62 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Galatia was a province of the Roman Empire located in what we now call modern-day Turkey. If you know anything about the geography of that region, you know that Turkey is a land bridge between Europe and the Middle East. […]
June 15, 2025 – Trinity Sunday
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-25 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Spoiler alert: I’m not going to explain the Trinity to you today. Mostly because—I’ll be honest—I don’t really know what it is. Maybe that’s more of a confession than a spoiler, but I’d argue that anyone who claims to fully understand the […]
June 1, 2025 – 7th Sunday of Easter
Acts 16:16-34; Psalm 97; Revelation 22:12-24, 16-17, 20-21; John 17:20-26 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer A People of the Prayer Book As Episcopalians, we are a people of a prayer book. This doesn’t negate our grounded-ness in scripture—I mean, it’s amazing how often the Bible quotes the Book of Common Prayer! But in truth, the Prayer […]
May 29, 2025 – Ascension Day
Psalm 93; Acts 1:1-11; Luke 24:44-53 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer As Christians, we often say that our hope is in the resurrection. And while that’s not untrue, and certainly not unworthy, I wonder—does it sometimes fall short? Does it, at times, even do us a disservice? I. Hope Deferred Can Be Hope Denied When […]
May 25, 2025 – 6th Sunday in Easter
Acts 16:9-15; Psalm 67; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 14:23-29 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer The world is not a safe place. It never has been. Oh, we may feel relatively safe—safe enough to complain about crime, poor education, the stock market, or the latest news. We call it a dangerous world from the comfort of our […]
May 11, 2025 – 4th Sunday in Easter
Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Superman was the first superhero movie I ever saw. I still remember that opening scene where a young Clark Kent outruns a speeding train and then gets in trouble for it as his parents warn him not to show off. But my favorite […]
April 20, 2025 – Easter Sunday
Isaiah 65:17-25; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Acts 10:34-43; Luke 24:1-12 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer It was my first year as a youth minister, and we were deep into planning for the Lent and Easter season. We had just wrapped up a lengthy discussion about Lent when the priest casually asked, “So, what do we think […]