Sermons on Mark 7:1-23

Pentecost 15B – September 2, 2018

“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” Mark 7:5 Every time I hear this Gospel from Mark, I am taken back 14 years to a large, airy church filled with people on a summer Sunday morning in the outskirts of Arusha, Tanzania, not far from Selian Lutheran Hospital. A group of…