Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio As a preacher, sometimes you have a Lectionary text that speaks right to you — one that is ripe for the theme of the day, whether that theme is something on the church calendar, like Trinity Sunday or Palm Sunday, or whether it is something on […]
Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio The Apostle Paul was not one of the original twelve disciples. He comes along a bit later. We hear a great deal about him in the Book of Acts (also referred to as the Acts of the Apostles) and the Letters he wrote, which comprise the […]
Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio The first Sunday after Easter is often referred to as Doubting Thomas Sunday. This is when we read the story about Thomas needing to see it to believe it. The Risen Christ appears before ten of the disciples. Judas has killed himself at this point, and […]
Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio This past week, I came across a video on social media that caught my attention. Some of the videos I see out there are funny, some are informative, and some make me shake my head and just about lose faith in humanity. This one, though, was […]
Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio Palm Sunday is the start of Holy Week. If you know the narrative, then you know a lot happens in just a few short days. Jesus enters Jerusalem and is greeted with thunderous applause. People lined the streets. They waved palm branches the way people […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio When my daughter was born, there was a large amount of meconium in the amitotic fluid. Translation: she had a bowel movement while in utero. This can be a serious issue if any gets into the lungs of the baby. Immediately after she was […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III © 2025, Dr. Tamilio William Johnson Everett was a professor of Christian ethics at Andover Newton Theological School. He has long since retired, and, instead of writing learned papers detailing the intricacies of Christian moral philosophy, he’s gone fishing, I believe. I emailed him a year or so ago […]
And so it begins again. Lent. Today is the first Sunday of this very sacred season. More people than usual came to the Ash Wednesday service the other night. Maybe the times have us focused on the need for the Lenten message: a time of deep introspection; a time to seek absolution for the sins […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio The story of the Transfiguration is a strange one. What’s the point? Jesus takes his inner circle of disciples up a mountain to be physically transformed before them. His body and clothing become dazzling white — all aglow. Moses and Elijah appear as well. […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2025, Dr. Tamilio Today’s Old Testament reading has a special place in my heart. I was twenty-four years old. I had just finished my Master of Arts degree in British and American Literature at Northeastern University. I should have been applying to Ph.D. programs. My goal was […]