The Rev. Jimmy Abbott Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost October 6, 2019 Luke 17:5-11 Wolves had not been seen at Yellowstone National Park in decades. They had been over-hunted. But in 1995, park officials introduced fourteen wolves back into Yellowstone. Researchers from Oregon State University realized the first thing that happened was that the wolves controlled… Read more

The Rev. Jimmy Abbott Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 29, 2019 Luke 16:19-31 Make a pledge to Holy Comforter So close and yet so far. Belfast, in Northern Ireland, is a city divided by history. Divided, quite literally. One side of the road is a Protestant neighborhood and on the other side, a Catholic neighborhood.… Read more

The Rev. Jimmy Abbott 15th Sunday after Pentecost September 22, 2019 Amos 8:4-7 Times were good. Times were very good. It seemed that everybody was getting rich beyond their wildest dreams. Foreign enemies were weak and in that relative calm, the markets thrived. Capital was flowing. The people doing so well also thought they were… Read more

The Rev. Jimmy Abbott Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 15, 2019 Luke 15:1-10 Tucked along the Charles River in Boston, next to Harvard University, is a little monastery. It’s the oldest, and probably the most famous of the monasteries in the Episcopal Church, called “The Society of Saint John the Evangelist.” The monks there live… Read more

The Rev. Jimmy Abbott Sixth Sunday of Easter May 26, 2019 Acts 16:9-15 It was one of those sweltering, muggy, summer days in Arlington, Virginia. My sister was working for a congressman in D.C. and I had gone to visit her and to be a tourist. As we made our way through Arlington National Cemetery… Read more