By Danny Yencich

• The Hope of Widows by Danny Yencich (6/8/2013)
  Third Sunday after Pentecost Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kings 17:8-24 Galatians 1:11-24 Luke 7:11-17 Together this week’s lectionary readings bespeak a current that flows throughout the biblical narrative. These are vibrant stories and exaltations, full to the brim with joy and gladness at the beauty of a life restored. The world of the bible, like our own, is a world fraught with difficulty and marred by suffering and sadness. But, like seedlings which break through concrete, the power of resurrection—of life itself—breaks forth and beats the odds. These are stories of hope amidst hards...
• Blessing and the Christian Life by Danny Yencich (1/16/2013)
  Second Sunday after Epiphany Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 62:1-5 Psalm 36:5-10 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 John 2:1-11 The Christian life is, or ought to be, an abundant life ever-rich in the centripetal blessings of God to God’s people and the centrifugal blessings of God’s people to God’s world. This pattern reaches back to the earliest chapters of Genesis as Abram is blessed to be the father of a nation which will in turn be a blessing unto the world. The pattern is then displayed throughout the rest of the Scriptures, as God’s ...
• The Lord Upholds the Orphan and the Widow by Danny Yencich (11/5/2012)
  Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 OR 1 Kings 17:8-16 Psalm 146 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44 Christian history teaches us many lessons, chief among them that the church has an on-again, off-again relationship with economic justice and the prophetic proclamation of Jubilee. The church does justice in fits and starts, it seems. We started off particularly strong, with the Messiah coming onto the scene and announcing the Reign of ...
• The Eucharist and the Hollow Place by Danny Yencich (8/20/2012)
  Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Joshua 24:1-2, 14-18 John 6:56-69 At the center of Christian worship is, and always has been, a meal – the Eucharist. In the Eucharist, the times coalesce: at the moment of communion, salvation history and future hope meet in the holy now. Those who take this meal, who eat this flesh and drink this blood, take in a meal at once like and unlike the meals of their ancestors. It is bread, it is wine, yet it is somehow so much more, for as Christ himself says, it is also eternal life. At the center of Christian worship is this meal, and this meal is the future hope of eterna...