by Patricia Templeton | Aug 30, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 17AAugust 30, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Last week’s hero is this week’s goat. In last Sunday’s gospel reading, Peter, the first-called of all the disciples, was praised for correctly answering Jesus’ question, “Who do you...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 23, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 16AAugust 23, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Today we heard the story of a defining moment in Jesus’ ministry. He and his disciples are walking on a dusty road north of Palestine. Jesus has been busy in recent days, healing the sick, feeding...
by Patricia Templeton | Jul 26, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 12AJuly 26, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Harry Potter has been big in our house for decades. Every few years Joseph Henry and I have a Harry Potter movie marathon. And every so often I go back and reread the series about the boy wizard. Recently...
by Patricia Templeton | Jul 5, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
The Fourth of JulyJuly 5, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton “God is not ashamed to be called their God.” This sentence from our second scripture reading today, a letter to the Hebrews, has been knocking around in my mind all week. That reading, like all...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 28, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 8AJune 28, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Years ago there was a spy movie called The Good Shepherd. It starred Matt Damon as Edward Wilson, a Yale student who was recruited to work in military intelligence during World War Two, and then was...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 21, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 7AJune 21, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton “Do not think I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a...
by Patricia Templeton | May 10, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Easter 6AMay 10, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton One of the biggest changes that has occurred in this country in the last few decades is the increase in religious diversity. When I was growing up you could safely assume that most people went to church,...
by Patricia Templeton | May 3, 2026 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Easter 5AMay 3, 2026St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Every three years the Episcopal Church holds a national convention, a time to enact new legislation governing the denomination, and to chart the course of the church for the coming years. Several years ago...
