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Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 4, 2026
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on September 30, 2026“Unconscionable” is one of those words that carries moral weight — not just “wrong,” but so wrong it violates the conscience itself. The word conscience is a construct of two words, with and knowledge. The unconscionable act goes against knowledge itself. It is wrong that is done fully knowing the
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Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Sept. 27, 2026
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on September 23, 2026Jesus often taught using parables to describe what the "Kingdom of God" is like. Our human language, like our human intellect will always come up short, failing to fully describe the love, presence and power of God. It's good to start with confession though, confessing who we've come to know
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Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on September 17, 2026It is interesting how quickly todays gospel text (Matthew 20:1-16) can cease to be a conversation about the Kingdom of Heaven and become a conversation about our own sense of what is or is not fair, who should or should not receive and how we feel when things aren't "equal".
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Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on September 11, 2026The Genesis story of Joseph and his brothers stretches the bonds of human relationship to unbearable limits. Jealousy on the brother's part, and Joseph was, sure enough, arrogant and insensitive. The brothers beat Joseph and would have left him for dead except that selling him into slavery somehow seemed like