September 11, 2022: Fourteenth Sunday of Pentecost
Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; Psalm 14; Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 15:1-10 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer The little sheep had been enjoying the delicate, dew-laden grass of the early morning when he realized he was all alone. He looked around and seeing none of his sheep friends, much less the shepherd, he began to bleat. He bleated and bleated, […]
August 21, 2022: Eleventh Sunday of Pentecost
Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; Hebrews 12:18-29 Luke 13:10-17 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Almost three weeks ago I got an urgent call from my mother. It was an unusual call, in part because my mother is a strong, independent woman who never asks for help. She asked me to come and take her to the […]
August 14, 2022: Tenth Sunday of Pentecost
Amos 5:18-24; Psalm 85:7-13; Galatians 3:22-28 Luke 1:46-55 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Some of you have heard me tell this story—and I hope you don’t mind if I tell it again, especially on this Feast of Jonathan Myrick Daniels. I was in ninth grade, in Ms. Jackson’s English class. I was sitting with my girlfriends—there were […]
July 24th, 2022: Seventh Sunday of Pentecost
Hosea 1:2-10; Psalm 85; Colossians 2:6-15 (16-19) Luke 11:1-13 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer In the first Harry Potter book, The Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry receives an invisibility cloak that had belonged to his father as a Christmas gift. Harry’s parents died when he was a year old and he had grown up in his aunt’s home with […]
July 17th, 2022: Sixth Sunday of Pentecost
Amos 8:1-12; Psalm 52; Colossians 1:15-28 Luke 10:38-42 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer One of the challenges in ethics is the ethical or moral quandary. Simply put, this is when two right or good things are put into opposition with one another, and you are forced to choose. Part of the challenge is that in choosing one right […]
December 5th, 2021 | Third Sunday in Advent
Advent 2C: Baruch 5:1-9; Canticle 4; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer In C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, Uncle Screwtape, or the Tempter as he might be known, counsels his young apprentice, Wormwood, on the most effective ways of leading humanity down a dark path. In his ninth letter he laments […]
Restore us O God of hosts; show the light of your countenance and we shall be saved.
My dogs are great at watching and waiting. They know the signs of feeding time. They will sit and watch, or maybe stare is a better word because they think they have Jedi mind skills, at the place where the cookies are kept in anticipation of their receiving one. They know when I am putting […]
November 29, 2020: The First Sunday of Advent, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
Restore us O God of hosts; show the light of your countenance and we shall be saved. My dogs are great at watching and waiting. They know the signs of feeding time. They will sit and watch, or maybe stare is a better word because they think they have Jedi mind skills, at the place […]
November 15, 2020: The Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
Three slaves are entrusted with their master’s money. The first two are given more money than the third and they use it with wisdom and savvy to double the amount. The third is given only one talent and he buries it in the backyard and keeps it “safe” until his master returns. We don’t truly […]
November 8, 2020: The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” – Joshua 24:17 Earlier this fall, we spent nine long weeks wandering in the wilderness in that space in between Egypt and the Promised Land. That time of the “in-between” is what is often referred to as liminal space. We know liminal space as […]