Day of Pentecost - May 24, 2026 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here. Every time I feel the Spirit moving in my heart, I will pray. I go back to that song often, and I'll explain why. My father was a psychiatrist. There is a saying in medicine that one goes into psychiatry because you yourself are crazy or a close family member is crazy. His mother, my paternal grandmother, was very crazy, crazy and mean, the worst kind of crazy. She was also Pentecostal. T

6th Sunday of Easter, Year A - May 10, 2026 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here: "Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence." I'm sixty years old—or sixty years young; I'm not sure how I should view my age. What I can say is that for most of the time, this very well-known Biblical verse used to pop out at me as "hey, this is important," and probably

5th Sunday of Easter, Year A - May 3, 2026 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me." How many people succeed in doing this? No judgment here, and please know that I am particularly NOT judging your faith. To loosely quote a song, "if you succeed in doing this, tell me how." At any one time, I suspect around half of us have troubled hearts. It may be that our marriage or relationship is ro

1st Sunday in Lent, Year A - Feb 22, 2026 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here. I have a self-help book from the 90s called the Pain of Being Human. It could be retitled as the Sin of Being Human because it addresses little sins or transgressions that we all face- injured pride, lack of belonging, excluding others, self-pity, etc. If we subtitled biblical texts, we could go back and subtitle this passage of Genesis as the Sin of Being Human. However, rathe