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    a community, not a crowd

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham June 15, 2026June 15, 2026

    Thanks to one of the commentators I read this week, the question that has been rolling around in my brain after reading our passage for today is this: What’s the difference between a crowd and a community? They are both words we use to describe collections of people, and we know they are not synonyms,…

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  • don’t be right; be love
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    don’t be right; be love

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham June 8, 2026June 8, 2026

    Though the lectionary groups Jesus’ call to Matthew with a couple of healing stories, I stayed in the room with the tax collectors and sinners to see what I could find there. Here’s my sermon from this week. ___________________________ A few weeks back—I think it was the last time we had a full-blown lunch after…

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    chocolate chip, pistachio, and pomegranate molasses cookies

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham June 7, 2026June 10, 2026

    Last Friday I was baking cookies to take to The Occasional Coffee House, the listening room concert series my friend Heather and I do together at her church in Madison, Connecticut. Now that it is warming up, I knew I wanted to make my lemon, basil, and crystallized ginger cookies; I also knew I wanted…

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    paying attention

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham June 4, 2026June 4, 2026

    Life and sermon preparation always intersect. This week, I found myself at the crossroads of one of Jesus’ healing stories and my own medical journey. “Maybe,” she said, “or perhaps you just notice them more because you have one.” She’s right, in that the circumstances of our lives often help to focus our attention and…

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  • people speaking people
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    people speaking people

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham May 28, 2026June 4, 2026

    My Pentecost sermon. Thanks for reading. __________________________ One of the challenges of standing up here every week is trying to communicate clearly. Actually, that’s true even when I’m not standing in the pulpit. Almost any time we communicate with each other we run the risk of being misunderstood. Our words are an essential and valuable…

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  • what we don’t know
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    what we don’t know

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham May 23, 2026

    As human beings, we spend a lot of time dealing with what we don’t know, whether we know it or not. Matthew 8:18-27 gives great examples of that, as well as Jesus’ call to relish our bewilderment. _______________________ One of the jobs I have had along the way, as many of you know, was to…

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    unexplainable

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham May 14, 2026

    I read an interesting book this past week titled This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith by Darcey Steinke who has lived with and through a spinal injury that caused her incredible pain. The book is much more than an autobiographical account of her suffering. Each chapter looks at the history and reality…

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  • open-hearted metaphors
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    open-hearted metaphors

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham May 7, 2026

    I made it to the end of the Sermon on the Mount in my sermon last Sunday, a journey that was meaningful and surprising to me. Here is how I wrapped things up. ________________________ This morning we complete the series we began fifteen Sundays ago when we read the Beatitudes, which are the opening verses…

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    ask, seek, knock

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham May 1, 2026

    Whatever logic there is to the Revised Common Lectionary (the preaching schedule followed by a lot of mainline Protestant churches), part of it seems to be to skip over passages that are tough to preach on, even when they are well known verses. One of those came up last week. ___________________________ Ginger and I were…

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  • no write-offs
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    no write-offs

    ByMilton Brasher-Cunningham April 25, 2026

    It’s been a long week and I am late posting my sermon from last Sunday as I continue through the Sermon on the Mount; this week, Matthew 7:1-6. The translation I used read this way: “Don’t write people off, so that you won’t be written off. You’ll receive the same judgment you give. Whatever you…

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