Jul 28, 2019
Jim Somerville: "And maybe this is the problem. Not that we don’t say the right words. Not that we don’t pray often enough. Not that we don’t pray with enough faith. But that we pray for the wrong things..."
Jul 21, 2019
Jim Somerville: "Once every three years the story of Mary and Martha comes up in the lectionary readings. And because I am a lectionary preacher, I have preached on this story more than once. In each of those sermons I also found myself wanting to defend Martha..."
Jul 14, 2019
Jim Somerville: "Maybe that’s what God meant when he commanded us to love our neighbors. Maybe he meant that we have to look at them and listen to them and hear their stories, that until we do we will never know what it’s like to be them, and that of course you can’t love what you don’t know..."