For the 5th Sunday of the season of Lent, Rev. Cari preached on the story of Mary anointing Jesus’ feet with expensive perfume, and wiping them with her hair. It’s John’s telling of the story, found in chapter 12: 1-8.

As part of the retelling of the story, she framed the actors as per the recent research of Elizabeth Schrader, made widely known in a sermon of Diana Butler Bass. If you are curious to hear Rev. Cari’s original sermon on this topic, and then find the link to Diana BB’s sermon, then listen here.

Rev. Cari takes a close look at this familiar story, which seems to be about money, about service to the poor, about the distinction between extravagant generosity and skin-flint selfishness… and reveals the affirmation at its core.