Year C – Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – (Proper 16)
Near the end of World War II, American infantryman Leo Hymas was given one of the best nicknames a soldier could receive during such a horrendous conflict. In early April of 1945 Hymans and three other soldiers assaulted what they believed to be some type of minor prison facility. They blew a hole in the […]
Read MoreYear C – Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – (Proper 15)
During the height of their popularity in 1981, the British rock band “The Police” released a single from their album “Ghost in the Machine” entitled “Invisible Sun.” In the song’s lyrics the lead singer Sting contemplated on how people living in cruel, war-torn and impoverished areas of the world found the will to go on […]
Read MoreYear C – Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost – (Proper 14)
On the last September Saturday in the small town of Wetumka, Oklahoma a festival is held to commemorate a broken promise. The annual Sucker Day Festival celebrates the city residents and leaders who were “suckered” by a swindler selling tickets to a non-existent circus. In the early 1950s, a man named F. Bam Morrison entered […]
Read MoreYear C – Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost - (Proper 13)
Yesterday was a true day of accomplishment at our home. We managed to complete a task on our to-do list that had been lingering for several months. We had a garage sale. On one of the hottest days of the Lawton summer – we had a garage sale. As I walked through the aisles of […]
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