5th Sunday After Epiphany

Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany – Year B

By Street Psalms | January 29, 2024 |

Mark 1:29-39

As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

1:30 Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once.

1:31 He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.

From Now On …

By Rev. Sarah Wiles | February 4, 2022 |

I think the part that most bothered me about this (besides catching people like fish—do you gut them after you catch them?) was that it was all up to me. Would I let Jesus in my boat? Would I follow? Would I fish for people? My salvation depended on my choice alone.

Just As You Are

By Rev. Sarah Wiles | February 5, 2021 |

Jesus took time for prayer. This isn’t the only place we see that. There are more than thirty references to Jesus praying. Jesus prayed. He prayed like he needed to…

The Box by the Door

By Ojii BaBa Madi | February 7, 2020 |

This world’s devotion to middle class affluence is predicated on the sacraments of global gentrification’s hard sweeping brooms, capitalism’s consumerist temples, and a careless society’s superhighways that bypass the poor, the blind, and those crowded out by “progress.”

Can Girls Fish?

By Lina Thompson | February 8, 2019 |

All the images I saw on the walls of my Sunday school classrooms were pictures of white children and a white Jesus who looked like a surfer. And then there were stories like today’s Gospel in which boys were the lucky ones. They were on the shore that day to receive the amazing invitation from Jesus to follow him.

Gathering at the Door

By Joel Van Dyke | February 2, 2018 |

In last week’s passage, we saw Jesus exorcising bad religion as he cast out the “impure spirit” of a man inside the synagogue. The reflection challenged the traditional reading of the text. What if the impure spirit didn’t so much reflect the possessed man? What if it was actually a reflection of the religious authorities?

Salt and Light

By Joel Van Dyke | February 3, 2017 |

This past Sunday morning I attended a unique worship service with some friends. It was called “Street Church;” all the parishioners are homeless youth from a particular area of Guatemala…

Don’t Tell

By Kris Rocke | February 6, 2015 |

Anthropologist Rene Girard and theologian Walter Wink have written extensively on how crowds are highly unstable and volatile socio-spiritual realities. They are more than the sum of their parts. They are easily moved, especially towards violence. This is why at every turn throughout the Gospels Jesus refuses to be the puppet of the crowd’s desire, which can one day shout “Hosanna, Hosanna,” and the next “Crucify him, crucify him.”

A Solitary Light

By Kris Rocke | February 7, 2014 |

Jesus reminds us that we are salt and light. These are twin gifts of our deepest vocation – to be human.