Sermons

If Only, Proper 20 (A) by The Rev. Kellan Day, the Rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Greenville, SC. A thread of human discontent runs through scripture. Doesn’t it also run through our lives? Since the beginning, since the munching of forbidden fruits, the grasping for birthrights, the wannabe dreamers, the freed who’d rather

When two or three are gathered together There is something wonderfully inconvenient about Christianity. It is not enough simply to believe in God. It is not enough to say the right prayers, come to church, know our Scripture, or even consider ourselves reasonably good people. Jesus insists on something considerably more difficult:  We have to

“Seventy Times Seven” – Proper 15, August 16, 2026 The Rev. Jazzy Bostock The story of Joseph is such a beautiful one. Perhaps you know the story from the musical, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” There’s something about putting bible stories to music that helps them stick in our heads and our hearts a

“Let Both Grow Together” Of the parables Jesus tells, the one about the weeds growing among the wheat can be especially troubling. In many readers’ opinion, what we would prefer to have happen, at least initially, is what the farm hands are ready to do: pull up the weeds, throw them out, see the world