Anna Sutterisch
The Rev. Anna Sutterisch is passionate about new ways of being and doing church and sharing the Gospel in a way that is relevant and life-changing to today’s people in today’s world. Rev. Anna is a proud graduate of Bexley Seabury Seminary and serves as priest in charge at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Chagrin Falls. She lives in Cleveland with her spouse (also a parish priest), two small humans, and two cats, and loves to run, cook, and eat vegetables.
Sermons and Bible Studies
Getting to Work, Proper 22 (C) – 2025
[RCL] Lamentations 1:1-6; Lamentations 3:19-26 or Psalm 137; 2 Timothy 1:1-14; Luke 17:5-10 Jesus is fed up. In today’s passage from the Gospel of Luke, Jesus has just finished teaching about mercy and forgiveness. Verses 1-5 are the famous passage about forgiving your sibling seven times in a day, over and over again. The expectation […]
Don’t Be Afraid, Proper 14 (C) – 2025
[RCL] Isaiah 1:1, 10-20; Psalm 50:1-8, 23-24; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40 Don’t be afraid, little flock. There’s no need to spiral, to crash out, to stress yourself over things that won’t last. Instead, root yourself in what truly matters. You don’t have to figure it all out on your own. Open your hands. Melt […]
Bible Study: Proper 11 (C) – 2019
Amos 8:1-12 A basket of summer fruit: the prophet Amos lived among a group of shepherds and was “a dresser of sycamore trees” (Amos 7:14), so he knew and appreciated a basket of fruit more than anyone. He also knew that ripe summer fruit rots quickly. That’s the warning he was giving to the privileged […]
Bible Study: Trinity Sunday (C) – 2019
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 The book of Proverbs is a collection of traditional cultural lessons—propositional statements, observational sayings, analogies, and ethics—structured as the teachings of a father to a son. This kind of “instructional literature” is one of the ways a family nurtures how a child is socialized into a certain world. These proverbs were passed […]
Bible Study: Easter 2 (C) – 2019
Acts 5:27-32 The Book of Acts was probably written by one of Paul’s companions, maybe his physician Luke, and is full of tales of divine intervention, miraculous conversions, and healings. The author seems to be saying, “We can carry on Jesus’s ministry!” In chapter 5, we hear about an encounter with the temple police, one […]
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