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2024-07-17T07:06:54-04:00

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Growing old together: An anniversary reflection

Last updated on: July 17, 2024 at 7:06 am By Vance Morgan

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Thirty-six years ago today, two early thirty-somethings stood in front of their four parents and exchanged promises; the groom’s father was an ordained minister, so the promises exchanged were official. It was a quickly organized, impromptu event because the groom’s mother was dying of cancer and might not live to experience the real, full-blown wedding planned for a year or so down the road. That wedding never happened. The groom’s mother died less than three months later, followed unexpectedly by... Read more

2024-07-16T07:50:00-04:00

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You might be a Bible-worshipper if . . .

Last updated on: July 16, 2024 at 7:50 am By Vance Morgan

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Regular readers of this blog know that I am a big fan of “The Chosen,” a multi-year cinematic treatment of the life of Jesus that is currently filming the fifth of a projected seven seasons. The fourth season ends with Jesus riding a donkey toward Jerusalem, followed by the men and women who have become part of his inner circle entourage (including a number of women). Like all dedicated fans of “The Chosen,” Jeanne and I cannot wait for season... Read more

2024-07-13T09:55:09-04:00

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The Head of John the Baptist

Last updated on: July 13, 2024 at 9:55 am By Vance Morgan

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Today is the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost; the gospel reading from Mark tells the story of John the Baptist’s imprisonment and execution, the final chapter in John’s story that was an important part of both Advent and Epiphany. Here is my entry for this Sunday in my book A Year of Faith and Philosophy that I am putting the final touches on: In a second season episode of “The Chosen,” Jesus has a private conversation with his relative John the Baptist. Jesus... Read more

2024-07-10T16:27:55-04:00

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There are Two Kinds of People . . .

Last updated on: July 10, 2024 at 4:27 pm By Vance Morgan

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I ran an informal experiment on Facebook the other day, the point of which was to see how quickly it would take people to get upset and defensive over something that, arguably, is not worth getting upset or defensive about. I posted There are two kinds of people. People who back into parking spots and normal people. That’s it. I could, of course, have posed the issue more neutrally: Do you back into a parking spot or do you pull... Read more

2024-07-08T16:21:21-04:00

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Where to Find Me

Last updated on: July 8, 2024 at 4:21 pm By Vance Morgan

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The end of my revision of my book A Year of Faith and Philosophy is in sight–I hope to have it my editor and the publisher by August 1, two weeks before the deadline. Here is what I wrote for Ordinary Time 25, which falls at some point during November. The Ordinary Time 25 gospel readings draw our attention to the importance of using what one has to further the kingdom of God rather than asking “I’m only one person—what can... Read more

2024-07-07T06:41:53-04:00

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The Wonder of a Child

Last updated on: July 7, 2024 at 6:41 am By Vance Morgan

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I’m back! After a two week break it’s good to be blogging again. As I continue to put my book A Year of Faith and Philosophy into final shape, I find that I’m doing some new writing in addition to editing and reorganizing. Here’s what I wrote for one of the later Sundays in Ordinary Time. In the Ordinary Time 18 Year B reading from Mark 9, Jesus returns to his lesson that the last will be first in response to the... Read more

2024-06-19T17:09:27-04:00

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Not Long Ago. Not Far Away

Last updated on: June 19, 2024 at 5:09 pm By Vance Morgan

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Jeanne and I went to the Auschwitz exhibition in Boston yesterday–it’s there for the rest of the summer. If you live in the northeast, you should go. The subtitle of the exhibition is “Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.” It was powerful and sobering, as one might expect. I have taught a colloquium called “Love Never Fails: Grace, Truth, and Freedom in the Nazi Era” with a colleague and friend from the history department five times over the last dozen... Read more

2024-06-17T21:53:41-04:00

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Feeding the Hungry Stranger

Last updated on: June 17, 2024 at 9:53 pm By Vance Morgan

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In the honors interdisciplinary program I teach in, my colleagues and I have chosen over the past two years to include a selection of material from A Listening Wind: Native Literature from the Southeast, a collection of stories, fables, myths, and poems from Cherokee literature. Among many candidates, my favorite of the several dozen short texts we assigned is Hasting Shade’s “The Spirit of an Ancestor.” On the most basic level, this is a simple “coming-of-age” story. The author grew... Read more

2024-06-15T12:38:26-04:00

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The Good Samaritan

Last updated on: June 15, 2024 at 12:38 pm By Vance Morgan

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Today is the Fifth Sunday after Easter in the lectionary, including a number of familiar stories and texts. Here is the section for this Sunday from my new book that I am putting the finishing touches on this summer before delivering the final version to the publisher in August. Enjoy! The Ordinary Time 5 Year C gospel from Luke is one of Jesus’ most beloved parables. Is there any parable more familiar than the story of the Good Samaritan? And... Read more

2024-06-12T17:26:25-04:00

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The Fruit of the Spirit

Last updated on: June 12, 2024 at 5:26 pm By Vance Morgan

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A shorter version of this essay from Fall 2021 will be the entry for the Third Sunday after Pentecost in my upcoming book. One of the lectionary readings for that day is “the fruit of the spirit” from Galatians 5. It is mid-November; the leaves on the large oak tree in the yard diagonally behind us have fallen, 90% of them in our back yard. That means that this weekend, weather permitting, will be at least partially dedicated to back... Read more

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