- 418
- Episodes
- 40
- Transcribed
- 71
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Sermons That Work
For more than 25 years, Sermons That Work, a joint offering of Forward Movement and The Episcopal Church’s Office of Communication, has provided free resources like sermons, Bible studies, and lesson plans that speak to congregations across the church. Our writers and readers come from numerous and varied backgrounds, and the resources we provide are used in small house churches, sprawling cathedrals, and everything between.
- Publisher
- The Episcopal Church
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Mar 2020
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
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40 of 418 episodes have a transcript.
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Pentecost 20 (A): What If? – Oct. 11, 2026
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Author and New Testament theologian, Amy Jill Levine, in her book, Short Stories by Jesus, offers this key to our exploration of multifaceted truth in parables. Like a poem, another simile, A parable will evoke numerous interpretations. It is our job to sort through them. When we seek universal morals from a genre that is designed to surprise, challenge, shake up, or indict, and look for a single meaning in a form that opens to multiple interpretations, we are necessarily limiting the parables, and so, ourselves. We might be better off thinking less about what they mean and more about what they can do. […]
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