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The Rev. Dr. Randall K. Bush
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Luke 24:36b-48

3rd Sunday of Easter - Year B

April 22, 2012

The Rev. Dr. Randall Bush (PCUSA)

Imagine that you're at a dinner party, standing by the fireplace with a small plate of hors d'oeuvres, when you mention to the people nearby that you'd like to talk about Easter. Imagine someone responding, "No, thank you, we are having a serious discussion about education in America." So you listen for a while as they discuss things like class sizes, teachers' salaries, and how high their property taxes are. Then they start reminiscing about their own school days, yellow school buses, packing a lunch, high school proms, and pop quizzes. You want to interrupt and bring up other details, such as how too many teachers burn out or end up having to buy class supplies with their own money, or how peer pressure can be so destructive that it leads many young people to consider suicide; but there's never a break in the conversation.

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The Rev. Dr. Lillian Daniel
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The Stand-In Church

John 13:1-17

6th Sunday after Pentecost - Year A

July 24, 2011

The Rev. Dr. Lillian Daniel (UCC)

Tom was the sexton at the first church I served, in charge of maintaining the physical plant of the church. Sextons, not Saint Peter, hold the all important keys in church life, securing the building after twelve-step meetings, cleaning up before Sunday worship, making sure the boiler is ready and running. A fifty-year rock and roller who had turned his life around, Tom the sexton had finally met the right wife, finally quit drinking, finally quit drugging and finally started to think about one day quitting smoking.

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The Rev. Dr. Catherine Taylor is pastor of the Church of the New Covenant (Presbyterian Church U.S.A.) in Doraville, Georgia.