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October 2013

October 06, 2013
A Mustard Seed Many Voices, One Story Luke 15:5-10 This morning we begin the first...
October 02, 2013
Yesterday the federal government shut down.  While this is a national crisis, it's also really...

September 2013

September 29, 2013
A Ridiculous Message The Cost: What it Takes to Tell the Truth Jeremiah 32:1-3a; 6-15...
September 29, 2013
I've been thinking this week about moving forward, about looking to the future. That seems...
September 23, 2013
A Broken Heart The Cost: What it Takes to Tell the Truth Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 This...
September 16, 2013
I’m All Alone The Cost: What it Takes to Tell the Truth Jeremiah 4:11-12; 22-28...
September 11, 2013
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, And lightness has a call that's hard to...
September 09, 2013
An introduction to Jeremiah, modified from The Message: Imagine there was one guy on board...
September 04, 2013
A Note from Pastor Amy: This is the last entry in a summer-long series of...

August 2013

August 28, 2013
The photo, from DCBC archives, shows Rev. Dr. Clarence W. Cranford (R), then-pastor of Calvary...
August 28, 2013
Note from Pastor Amy: Today is a big day in DC: it's the 50th anniversary...
August 27, 2013
I titled this post, "Dancing in the Dark" because it's a collection of thoughts about...
August 23, 2013
If you haven't seen Twenty Feet from Stardom, you should.  And when you do, it...
August 21, 2013
Rachel Johnson has spent her career working at the intersection of religion and politics.  She...
August 13, 2013
Tom Vanaskie is a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and a regular...
August 12, 2013
I shared these thoughts with the Calvary congregation in worship yesterday, the ten year anniversary...
August 11, 2013
The Men of Judges: Ehud Judges 3: 12-25 Becky Vaughn was telling me a story...
August 07, 2013
Amy Sullivan is a Calvary member, and a journalist who writes about religion, politics, and...

July 2013

July 31, 2013
Susan Sevier is currently a student at the Virginia Theological Seminary and a church musician...
July 24, 2013
Myra Houser is a Calvary member; in her spare time she's in graduate school for...
July 17, 2013
Jac Whatley is a lifelong Baptist from North Carolina now living in Washington, DC. He...
July 17, 2013
Jac Whatley is a lifelong Baptist from North Carolina now living in Washington, DC. He...
July 11, 2013
You know what they say: if we can’t laugh at ourselves who can we laugh...
July 10, 2013
Over the past few weeks in worship we’ve been following the gospel lectionary texts and...
July 07, 2013
We're getting ready for our two Associate Pastors to be gone at the same time!...
July 05, 2013
Over the past few weeks in worship we've been following the gospel lectionary texts and...
July 01, 2013
Now we see no great descent or resurrection, no epiphanic flash of glory— but our...
July 01, 2013
Power Play: A Calling Luke 9:51-62 As some of you know, I spent a week...

June 2013

June 24, 2013
From the Margins: A Sufferer Luke 8:26-39 All week as I’ve been reading this passage...
June 14, 2013
 a meditation on Matthew 13:1-9Listen. Balancing on the deck of a boat, removed because the...
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