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August 2013

August 04, 2013

Treasure in Heaven

How do you store up treasures in heaven? What do you put in your purse...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Rich Toward God

Once, and with sadness, a lawyer on the brink of retirement told me he had...

July 21, 2013

For Trayvon

Luke writes that Jesus was praying, and then a disciple asked him to teach them...

July 14, 2013

A Woman’s Right to Choose

Briefly, Luke tells the familiar vignette of Martha and Mary. Jesus and his friends have...

July 01, 2013

The Test

Who is my neighbor? asked the lawyer, testing Jesus in that age-old theological sport: debate. ...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Lambs in the Midst of Wolves

Commissioning the Seventy – the roots of the early church are in this story. The...

June 23, 2013

Midsummer Wisdom

Midsummer. The longest day comes, bearing sweet fulfillment everywhere, and also sadness that the fullness...

June 17, 2013

Jesus and the Young Madman

A slave, then a dead man, next a prostitute, and now a madman – Luke...

June 09, 2013

The Woman on the Floor

The woman on the floor, in John Beraud's painting, brings the world’s oldest profession into the...

June 02, 2013

What Happened at Nain

Jesus intervenes in death three times, according to the memories of his friends. All four...

May 2013

May 26, 2013

It’s a small story, and briefly told in Luke’s gospel: Some elders among the Jewish...

May 20, 2013

Trinity

Genesis 1, the beautiful hymn to Imago Dei, the One God, opens the Bible by...

May 12, 2013

Sense Where None Seems Possible

Religion and terror - inseparable in Jesus’ time, explosive in our own. Their combustible fusion...

May 05, 2013

One

The epiphanies of Easter draw to their end, the forty days of unexpected sightings, memorable...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

The Advocate

On April first, in the spirit of foolishness and in the longing for spring, women...

April 21, 2013

Evildoers

Now the cycle of Easter stories circles back upon itself. The circle does not return...

April 14, 2013

Assimilation

It was the Festival of Dedication, John writes. Now it is called Hanukah, an eight...

April 07, 2013

Easter Bread

There isn’t much to tell, tomorrow when I go down to Goodmorning and How are...

April 02, 2013

Doubting Thomas

My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider...

March 2013

March 23, 2013

Easter Rising

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing...

March 17, 2013

Judas

The legends of Judas are burned into the story of Holy Week unforgettably. Over the...

March 16, 2013

Maundy Thursday Liturgy, The Night of the Beloved Community

Please note: Unless otherwise cited below, this service was written by, or adapted from the...

March 16, 2013

Good Friday

Readings A Reading from Markings, by Dag Hammarskjold* I don't know who - or what...

March 10, 2013

A Beautiful Thing

“. . . . once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who...

March 03, 2013

Lost

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

Siloam and the Fig Tree

Everyone knows the great energies running amok cast terrible shadows, that each of the so-called...

February 17, 2013

That Fox

The field tells none of its turned story it lies under its low cloud like...

February 10, 2013

Love’s Temptations

There are so very many ways to get lost. And most of them include some...

February 03, 2013

The Roots of Hope

It’s bleak midwinter – February – and black history month, when the long wintry shadow...

January 2013

January 27, 2013

A Confusion of Lights

Light is our perennial winter theme. Epiphany, the season of lights and signs, reveals something...

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