Joseph Peters-Mathews
The Rev. Joseph Peters-Mathews is the vicar of St. Hilda St. Patrick Episcopal Church in Edmonds, Wash., where he has served since 2019. Joseph was ordained priest in 2012 and has served on the staffs of the presiding bishop and bishop of California. He is married to Brandon and they have two children, Topher and Finny. Joseph has written for Sermons that Work, Earth & Altar, and Modern Metanoia. Joseph is an alumnus of General Theological Seminary and Troy University.
Sermons and Bible Studies
Vulnerable, Proper 20 (B) – 2018
Mark’s Gospel was the first written. It is the shortest. Likely it was a one-person play, something that was first memorized and shared via oral tradition. Only in time did it go from one-person dramatic storytelling to gospel text, written down, copied, and eventually read throughout the Church and the world. Mark’s Greek is quick […]
The Good Shepherd, Easter 4 (B) – 2018
Alleluia! Christ is risen! Today’s gospel text uses an image that may be lost on many of us, an image that we may know from childhood stories — but not firsthand experience. Jesus, living in the first century, talking to people who know livestock and agriculture in their hearts and bones, tells his disciples, his […]
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