Who Owns That Tree?

Who Owns That Tree?

An enormous tree towers over two small houses on a suburban street.
Who owns that tree? Photo: Kathleen O’Keefe Reed

Sermon given by Pastor Kathleen O’Keefe Reed on Sunday, October 4, 2020, the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, during the online service at University Lutheran Church. The text for the sermon was Matthew 21:33–46.

In the sermon, Pastor Reed also cites the book Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.