Eyes Wide Open Mark 10:46-52
27th of October 2024
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD October 27, 2024 Eyes Wide Open Mark 10:46-52 When I was in about fourth grade, the world was taken with a new visual phenomenon: Magic Eye images. You may have seen your first one in a poster frame at the mall, with a soft pretzel or a fresh […]
Faith is an Action Verb Mark 10:17-31
13th of October 2024
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD October 13, 2024 Faith is an Action Verb Mark 10:17-31 Black Mountain Presbyterian Church is a thriving congregation that sits right outside of the town center of Black Mountain – a vibrant main drag, with local galleries, shops, and restaurants, that was once home to the radical Black […]
People Power! Mark 11:1-11
24th of March 2024
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD March 24, 2024 People Power! Mark 11:1-11 In September of 2003, the Dalai Lama visited Washington, DC, and offered an address at the National Cathedral. It was the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and, as I was living in DC at the time, I knew I […]
A House of Prayer for All People John 2:13-22
3rd of March 2024
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore March 3, 2024 A House of Prayer for All People John 2:13-22 The room is large, with a dusty white tile floor, and dim – with fluorescent lighting that is often turned off, at least in my memory. The lights are off to help keep the room cool, which […]
Who is He to Us? Mark 8:27-38
25th of February 2024
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD February 25, 2024 Who is He to Us? Mark 8:27-38 In Hendersonville, NC, not far from where my parents live, there is a small aquarium. They have some 300 aquatic animals and are staffed by a team of volunteers and interns. And it is there, in the Aquarium […]
What’s Mine is Yours? Matthew 22:15-22
22nd of October 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD October 21, 2023 What’s Mine is Yours? Matthew 22:15-22 Gillian, Cocoa and I took a walk yesterday, down our street lined with towering sycamore trees. The sycamore leaves all turn brown and drop in dry heaps covering the curb, but interspersed through the neighborhood are oaks and maples, […]
A Question of Power… and the Power of Questions Matthew 21:23-32
1st of October 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD September 30, 2023 A Question of Power… and the Power of Questions Matthew 21:23-32 Senator Dianne Feinstein died on Friday, a lion of California politics and in the Democratic party. She was 90 years old and had served in the US. Senate for more than thirty years, the […]
What is Fair? Matthew 20:1-16
24th of September 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD September 24, 2024 What is Fair? Matthew 20:1-16 It was night when we arrived at the factory gates, and the only light was from the headlights of our car, and those of a truck parked on the road nearby. I remember a crowd of maybe 20-25 people – […]
Out of the Frying Pan Daniel 3:14-27
25th of June 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD June 25, 2023 Out of the Frying Pan Daniel 3:14-27 This past week, many in the world watched, transfixed, as the US Coast Guard led a search for a missing submersible called the Titan: a small, deep diving craft that had taken five people on a tour of […]
The Unknown God Acts 17:22-31
14th of May 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD May 14, 2023 The Unknown God Acts 17:22-31 If you attended public school as a child, you probably remember taking a standardized test. For kids of my era, state testing was done using long scantron sheets with a hundred rows of bubbles marked ABCD with a number two […]