Month: May 2026

Sixth Sunday of Easter — 1 Peter 3:13–22 Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15b). We are well into the Easter season now, and during this wonderful time frame, the Epistle readings have been drawing us into the First Letter of Peter — a circular letter addressed to scattered Christian communities in Asia Minor, people living as what Peter calls “aliens and exiles” in a culture that regards them with suspicion, and occasionally with something sharper than that. Peter’s is a letter about how to live faithfully under pressure. About hope that…