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September 2015

September 14, 2015

Child Like

Are you listening? It was my mother’s frequent outcry. And of course we weren’t. We...

September 06, 2015

A Wilderness of Names

William Barnwell, an Episcopal priest who lives in New Orleans, has spent his life working...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Interruptions

Interruptions. I’m just enjoying one now, an NPR piece on Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who...

August 24, 2015

What Defiles, What Defines

It’s election year in the US, and the mudslinging has begun. Score-keeping, which is tracked...

August 16, 2015

Body and Soul

Wading through John’s 6th chapter, dense with repetitious mystical instructions about eating the body and...

August 09, 2015

Eternal Life

Time. We all know what time is. We are in it, of it, on it,...

August 02, 2015

Rain and Bread

Manna from heaven, so the story tells us, rained down, so that the Israelites, in...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Hunger

For a month of Sundays the readings are a drama of holy bread, miracle bread,...

July 19, 2015

Fragments

In the desert, when the bread of heaven came down upon the fleeing refugees, we...

July 12, 2015

Miracles Require Hope

People everywhere are hungry. Mark writes that wherever Jesus went he was beset by crowds...

July 06, 2015

Of Weddings and Cakes

This question was making the rounds on Facebook on July 4: if selling a wedding...

June 2015

June 28, 2015

Unbelief

And they took offense at him (Mark 6:3) Mark is talking about Jesus here. And...

June 21, 2015

Murder at Mother Emanuel

Still in the boat that had weathered the storm at sea, Jesus reached shore, and...

June 14, 2015

Fear

When did faith become separated from fear? When, instead, did faith become forged into medals: ...

June 08, 2015

Seeds

Seeds are a focal image for Jesus, an icon of the kingdom of God. It...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

Blasphemy

According to Webster’s Dictionary, blasphemy is great disrespect shown to God or to something holy. ...

May 17, 2015

The Legacy

According to John: Jesus, in many speeches, prepares those he loves for his impending departure...

May 10, 2015

Ascending Requires Letting Go

There’s really no other way to do this: to rise into eternal life, to transcend...

May 04, 2015

Marriage Meanings

For centuries upon centuries, a bride was something a man bought, or his father bought...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Fruitful

. . . . I am the true vine, and my Father is the Vinegrower. He...

April 19, 2015

The Good Shepherd

Heroes, in the biblical tradition, are not heroic. There’s just no way of getting around...

April 12, 2015

Scared Sick

Scared sick. When life spirals out of control, I react by getting scared sick. You...

April 05, 2015

The Easter of Our Senses

Alone in the gospels, and in the whole of the Bible, Thomas is eternally remembered...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

The Moveable Feast

Easter is a moveable feast, according to the rubrics in the Book of Common Prayer....

March 21, 2015

Holy Week – Holding Up the Kingdom Vision

The Kingdom of God: Jesus challenged the kingdoms of this world ceaselessly with his provocative...

March 16, 2015

Icons

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to...

March 07, 2015

Eternal Life and Selma

The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness more – John 3:19...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

The Things We Do for Love

In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers...

February 22, 2015

Names

What shall we call him? It’s been an invitation and a dilemma, down through the...

February 15, 2015

Lent – The Season of Good News

The Turning Season. Lent. Solemnity falls upon the worship of the church, the extravagant lights...

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