The Rev. Martha Sterne
The Episcopal Church
Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA
The Rev. Martha Sterne is associate rector of Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church in Atlanta, GA. She formerly served as associate rector at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Atlanta. She is the author of Alive and Loose in the Ordinary (Church Publishing).
Latest Content by The Rev. Martha Sterne
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The center of the universe in Maryville, Tennessee, as far as I am concerned, is Lamar Amburn's vegetable market which is one block over from my former parish church. I thought about Lamar's this week because the gospel is all about people using and not using talents. I wish Jesus had dropped by Lamar's before he went negative on the man who buried his talent in the ground; it might have given our Savior a whole different perspective.
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Our son and his wife got married ten years ago in her aunt's parish church in lower Manhattan on October 13, 2001. It was always to be a simple wedding - just family including grandparents, aunts and uncles and selected first cousins, and of course Charles and Christine's closest friends. It was always to be a simple wedding - less than 100. But after the planes hit - once we found out they were still alive - she worked in the financial district and he on 34th - in the shock and profound grief of the days after 9/11, their wedding got a lot simpler. Such as Could it happen? The hotel where half the people were to stay - damaged, closed. Such as Should people come? Should our relatives - some old and some with little children - from Georgia and Mississippi and Ireland and Colorado and Arizona and Louisiana and England and DC- have to get on a plane and come to this small thing, this simple wedding.
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Other Recent Content by The Rev. Martha Sterne
August 12, 2011
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I had only been to one high school reunion thirty years ago. She had never, ever been to even one and no wonder.
July 04, 2011
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Who won the Peachtree?
December 07, 2010
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Hungry? Watch . . .
November 26, 2010
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A family, a country, a yearning to pass on what has been handed to us. How? What about practicing gratitude?
March 09, 2010
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If you preach, you may not like this. If you listen, I bet you will.
March 04, 2010
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Watch out what you ask for. When preachers start asking people to give feedback on sermons, it can get kind of rough and pretty holy.
September 17, 2009
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How good do you think you are at separating the goats from the sheep? The aggressors from the aggrieved? The perps from the victims? Here's a weird little memory on a country road in East Tennessee.
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The Rev. Martha Sterne follows up with Day1 host Peter Wallace and discusses her world with the poor in Atlanta and how that led to her calling to be a parish priest.
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The Rev. Martha Sterne sits down with Day1 Host Peter Wallace to discuss her work with Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church in Atlanta, GA and what she enjoys most about working both with the elderly and the children of Holy Innocence School.
August 30, 2009
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The Rev. Martha Sterne offers a thought-provoking take on the admonition in James 1 to be "doers of the word" and not hearers only. It starts by looking in the mirror.
June 04, 2009
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Happiness is not to be sniffed at.
April 21, 2009
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Over and over again, I find myself trying to figure out who is in charge in a particular situation. Maybe I really want to be in charge and maybe I really really don't want to be in charge - but not knowing - WHEW! - can make for a train wreck . . . .
June 18, 2006
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The Rev. Martha Sterne, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Maryville, Tennessee, talks about the importance of small things in our lives.
December 02, 2001
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November 11, 2001
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October 13, 2001
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June 11, 2000
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May 21, 2000
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April 23, 2000
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