Sally Rausch: "(Un)familiar Ground" (Sermon for July 12, 2026)

Sally Rausch: "(Un)familiar Ground" (Sermon for July 12, 2026)

July 12, 2026 · 15 min

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Sally Rausch explores the parable of the sower and its implications for personal and communal identity.

This Sunday's lectionary text is a parable many of us likely know well - the parable of the sower. As I've sat with it this week, I keep thinking about the stories we're part of - the story of this nation, the story of this community at St. Paul and St. Andrew, even the stories we tell ourselves in our own heads - and how all of them shape who and whose we understand ourselves to be. The word "parable" means to overturn, to cast aside. Jesus used them throughout his ministry not to comfort or...

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