Proper 19CSeptember 14, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton The first time I ever heard of Charlie Kirk was earlier this summer, when our Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe announced that the Episcopal Church was severing its long history of working with the...
Proper 18CSeptember 7, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Today we hear a story about a slave named Onesimus who was owned by a man named Philemon. After enduring years of slavery, Onesimus sees his chance for escape. He runs away from Philemon and heads to...
Proper 17CAugust 31, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton It is one of the most basic tenets of scripture in both the Old and New Testaments — hospitality to the stranger. Abraham and Sarah are the first in scripture to model it. Abraham is sitting...
Proper 16CAugust 24, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Eighteen years. For 18 years the woman has not been able to stand up straight. For 18 years she has been hunched over, her back so bent that all she can see is the ground around her. For 18 years...
Proper 12cJuly 27, 2025St. Dunstan’s The Rev. Patricia Templeton Years ago, a woman’s magazine, one of those that you could see at the supermarket checkout line, had a regular feature entitled “Can this marriage be saved?” In effect, that is the question posed in the...
Independence Day 2025July 6, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton “The Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords … who executes justice for the orphan and widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall...
Proper 8CJune 29, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Many years ago, I worked in a refugee camp in Southeast Asia that housed people who had escaped from horrendous persecution in Laos and Cambodia. My job was to help prepare them for a new life in America....
Proper 7CJune 22, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton I had a sermon all ready for today. Here it is. But when I woke up this morning I realized that this sermon didn’t really fit what I am thinking and how I am feeling today. So I made a page of...
