Proper 27, Year B, RCL
Delivered by The Rev. Mary Cat YoungNovember 8, 2009The Episcopal Church of Our SaviourRuth 3:1-5; 4:13-17Psalm 127Hebrews 9:24-28Mark 12:38-44Before I begin, let me share with you a quick story about how this little item came into my possession. During my seminary days I lived right next to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One night, while on a walk with a friend we were standing on a street corner talking about NPR’s show Car Talk (Cah Tawlk). A man overheard us and mentioned that the studio they broadcast from was across the hall from his business, along with the law offices of “Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.” My compan

Proper 23, Year B, RCL
Amos 5:6-7, 10-15Psalm 90:12-17Hebrews 4:12-16Mark 10:17-31The Bible is a funny thing. Though we receive it in our contemporary context as one volume that can easily be accessed, carried around, handled like any other book, we often overlook the fact that rather than it being one book, it is a library of texts. A collection of over 70 history books, letters, gospels, wisdom sayings, songs, poems, law references and stories written by as many or more authors, not to mention editors, redactors, translators, and the number of hands that adjusted, corrected and enhanced the words delivered to us, collected and formatted into one cozy little volume. I