the Rev. Em Johnson, MDiv, STM
Grace to you, and peace from God our Creator and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Here we are on Palm Sunday, marking both the end of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. Here we turn our faces from the … Read more
Grace to you, and peace from God our Creator and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. We’ve nearly made it to the end of another year. Where 2017 went I’m not quite sure, and 2018 will be upon us in no … Read more
Grace to you, and peace from God our Creator and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. On this day we celebrate the feast of St Michael and All Angels. Most congregations wouldn’t celebrate this festival unless if fell on a Sunday, … Read more
“Well, now what?” I don’t title sermons, but if I had to, that’d be it today. “Well, now what?” Of course, Sundays have titles, at least off-the-record. You now, there’s “Good Shepherd Sunday” and “John the Baptist Sunday,” not to … Read more
When I was on internship in Easton PA, I spent one afternoon a week in the Northampton County Department of Corrections. My supervisor and I mostly functioned as teachers. We would teach classes like “Intro to World Religions,” “How to … Read more
We’ve all heard the expression “give something up for Lent.” This guilty pleasure is in our DNA as Christians: to abstain from fried foods, or Facebook, or some other unhealthy habit. Of course there’s the opposite approach where instead of … Read more