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October 2013

October 06, 2013

A Mustard Seed

A Mustard Seed Many Voices, One Story Luke 15:5-10 This morning we begin the first...

October 02, 2013

Feel the Love

Yesterday the federal government shut down. While this is a national crisis, it's also really...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

A Ridiculous Message

A Ridiculous Message The Cost: What it Takes to Tell the Truth Jeremiah 32:1-3a; 6-15...

September 29, 2013

The Bishop Wept

I've been thinking this week about moving forward, about looking to the future. That seems...

September 23, 2013

A Broken Heart

A Broken Heart The Cost: What it Takes to Tell the Truth Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 This...

September 16, 2013

I’m All Alone

I’m All Alone The Cost: What it Takes to Tell the Truth Jeremiah 4:11-12; 22-28...

September 11, 2013

Reflections of a Harried Pilgrim

Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, And lightness has a call that's hard to...

September 09, 2013

A Compelling Call

An introduction to Jeremiah, modified from The Message: Imagine there was one guy on board...

September 04, 2013

Guest Blogger Michelle Harris-Love: It Takes a (Baptist?) Village

A Note from Pastor Amy: This is the last entry in a summer-long series of...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

Legacy: Calvary at the March on Washington

The photo, from DCBC archives, shows Rev. Dr. Clarence W. Cranford (R), then-pastor of Calvary...

August 28, 2013

Guest Blogger Allyson Robinson: Questions and Answers on Chelsea Manning

Note from Pastor Amy: Today is a big day in DC: it's the 50th anniversary...

August 27, 2013

Dancing in the Dark

I titled this post, "Dancing in the Dark" because it's a collection of thoughts about...

August 23, 2013

On Being a Star…Just Like Everybody Else

If you haven't seen Twenty Feet from Stardom, you should. And when you do, it...

August 21, 2013

Guest Blogger Rachel Johnson: To Sing and Dance, Confessions of a Religious, but Not Spiritual

Rachel Johnson has spent her career working at the intersection of religion and politics. She...

August 13, 2013

Guest Blogger Tom Vaneskie: What I Think About Church and Other True Confessions

Tom Vanaskie is a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and a regular...

August 12, 2013

Ten Years: Some Pastoral Reflections

I shared these thoughts with the Calvary congregation in worship yesterday, the ten year anniversary...

August 11, 2013

The Men of Judges: Ehud

The Men of Judges: Ehud Judges 3: 12-25 Becky Vaughn was telling me a story...

August 07, 2013

Guest Blogger Amy Sullivan: Mission Trips

Amy Sullivan is a Calvary member, and a journalist who writes about religion, politics, and...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Guest Blogger Susan Sevier: Embracing the Questions

Susan Sevier is currently a student at the Virginia Theological Seminary and a church musician...

July 24, 2013

Guest Blogger Myra Houser: Way Too Smart for Church

Myra Houser is a Calvary member; in her spare time she's in graduate school for...

July 17, 2013

Guest Blogger Jac Whatley: A Few Things I’ve Learned Along the Way

Jac Whatley is a lifelong Baptist from North Carolina now living in Washington, DC. He...

July 17, 2013

Guest Blogger Jac Whatley: A Few Things I've Learned Along the Way

Jac Whatley is a lifelong Baptist from North Carolina now living in Washington, DC. He...

July 11, 2013

I Believe!…or The Book of Mormon As a Compelling Case for Institutional Religion

You know what they say: if we can’t laugh at ourselves who can we laugh...

July 10, 2013

Guest Blogger Chuck Andreatta: Edgy Exegesis on Luke 9

Over the past few weeks in worship we’ve been following the gospel lectionary texts and...

July 07, 2013

Calvary Kids Interview the Pastoral Relations Committee

We're getting ready for our two Associate Pastors to be gone at the same time!...

July 05, 2013

Guest Blogger Yolanda Appiah-Kubi: On the Margins

Over the past few weeks in worship we've been following the gospel lectionary texts and...

July 01, 2013

A Prayer for Ordinary Time

Now we see no great descent or resurrection, no epiphanic flash of glory— but our...

July 01, 2013

Power Play: A Calling

Power Play: A Calling Luke 9:51-62 As some of you know, I spent a week...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

From the Margins: A Sufferer

From the Margins: A Sufferer Luke 8:26-39 All week as I’ve been reading this passage...

June 14, 2013

Listen

a meditation on Matthew 13:1-9Listen. Balancing on the deck of a boat, removed because the...

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