Sunday, September 12 10:00 AM Opening session: The Rev. Raymond Webster and the Rev. Danielle Thompson “Reading Luke’s Gospel” In the Lectionary we are reading from Luke’s Gospel until the Sunday before Thanksgiving – and then begin a year long reading from Matthew. We start off the year looking at some things that are distinctive about Luke. We will also look at today’s Gospel reading, Luke 15:1-10 – two of Jesus’ great parables about the lost and found. And also at the third parable in chapter 15 of Luke, the father’s welcome home to his prodigal son.

       Sunday, September 19 10:00 AM The Rev. Danielle Thompson “Today’s reading from Luke: Luke 16:1-13.”  In today’s reading, Jesus uses a parable about a dishonest manager to teach about faithfulness, and who (or what) we choose to be faithful to.  This parable forms a unit with a second one in Chapter 16, “The Rich Man and Lazarus.”  Both stories are vivid, complex, and challenging.  We will spend some time unpacking the text of the two parables, looking at the questions that they provoke, and considering their relevance for us today.

       Sunday, September 26 10:00 AM. Eliza Griswold. Her new book “The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From The Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam” (published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was reviewed both in the Wednesday, August 18, 2010 issue of the New York Times, and on the front page of the Sunday, August 22 New York Times Book Review (www.nytimes.org). Copies of the book will be available for sale on September 26. The daughter of our former bishop Frank Griswold and Phoebe Griswold, Eliza Griswold was confirmed here in St. Chrysostom’s.