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Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth August 31, 2025 In our Gospel lesson today, Jesus names a lot of binaries: between sitting at the place of honor and sitting at the lowest place, between those who are honored and those who are disgraced, between those who will be exalted and those who will be humbled. But to go beyond simply naming these binaries, I want us to think about how the experience of the wedding banquet and the Sabbath…
The Feast of Mary, Mother of Our Lord
In today’s gospel, we hear one of the most revolutionary hymns in all of Scripture, it’s known as the Magnificat. But, too often Mary is domesticated —pictured as meek, mild, and obedient. However, the Mary we encounter in Luke is something far more radical. She is a teenager, unwed, dark-skinned, and living under the occupation of the Roman empire. By all accounts, she should be invisible. She should be powerless. And yet, she dares to sing…
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
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