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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...

February 08, 2015

Transfiguration

Transfixed by joy, Peter is speechless – and then he stammers, wishing the moment could...

February 01, 2015

A Mother-in-law Story

There are only two mother-in-law stories in the Bible, as far as I know. One...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

What Have You To Do With Me?

If you watched the final show of The Colbert Report (and if you wish, you...

January 18, 2015

Following

After John was arrested. Mark adds a sinister dimension to the calling of disciples –...

January 11, 2015

The Irreverent Life

When Jesus calls disciples, he is not seeking a balance of perfect qualities that will...

January 03, 2015

Tracks

The Australian film, Tracks, tells the true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who,...

December 2014

December 28, 2014

Strangers Bearing Gifts

. . . . wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the...

December 23, 2014

The Grief in the Gift

Sitting Ducks. The infant sons of Bethlehem were sitting ducks for Herod’s army, that infamous...

December 22, 2014

Christmas Creatures

Good news; but if you ask me what it is, I know not; It is...

December 15, 2014

Fearlessness

We are all called to be mothers of God – for God is always waiting...

December 07, 2014

The Light of the World

What is the crying at Jordan? Who hears, O God, the prophecy? Dark is the...

November 2014

November 29, 2014

Voices in the Wilderness

It is in rugged rises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out...

November 22, 2014

The Unexpected Time

On the stiff twig up there Hunches a wet black rook Arranging and rearranging its...

November 17, 2014

The Great Sorting

In J.K. Rowling’s world of Harry Potter, where the aim of education was to learn...

November 10, 2014

The Risk Takers

There’s a razor’s edge in Matthew’s telling of Jesus’ tales. Occasional words of warning appear...

November 01, 2014

Wise and Foolish

Who has a wedding in the middle of the night anyway? How can anyone be...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Saints in the Shadows

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted...

October 18, 2014

The Test

A lawyer asked him a question to test him: Which is the greatest commandment? -...

October 12, 2014

God and Caesar

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are...

October 04, 2014

The Wedding Feast

The Wedding of the Year was just held in Venice: George Clooney, world’s most eligible...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

The Vineyard and the Days of Awe

The Ten Days of Awe, the High Holy Days of Judaism, began last week with...

September 21, 2014

Authority Questions

Who do you think you are? Who said you could do that? Hey, what’s the...

September 14, 2014

Money, Manna, Marriage, Mercy

If the government declared that the leaves of the trees were money, wrote Frederick Buechner...

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