You belong at St. Paul's!
You belong at St. Paul's!
Sermons by The Rev. Jenny Replogle (Page 9)
Vanity of vanities. All is vanity. This is the soundbite of Ecclesiastes that was most familiar – well until “For everything there is a season” was made famous by the Byrds. But overall, the recurring phrase of this book is “vanity of vanities, all is vanity, a chasing after the wind.” This is the only…
Last Sunday, when the alarm clock on my phone went off, I went into my normal morning routine of checking my email, followed by opening the New York Times. Once again, in all caps at the top were the words we are almost getting used to: mass shooting. This time in Orlando, with 20 believed…
At my last parish, I had the opportunity to travel to El Salvador twice. As most people will tell you, visiting a developing country for the first time can be incredibly overwhelming. The poverty is on a level we just do not see in our country. We were welcomed into lean-to shacks, from the side…
“Soak it up… the resurrection is everywhere.” This is the advice I received a few years ago, days before I left for Rome, where I would with seminary classmates for two weeks. My dad had died in a car accident weeks before, and when the rector of my parents’ church learned that I was going…
What happened on this day? We gather today under a huge cross. We mark a cross on our bodies. We wear crosses. We decorate with crosses. At the core of our life together is the shape of an ancient execution device, one specifically used to humiliate and isolate its victim from any decent member of…