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The wedding is the red herring
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5 min read
a Sermon for Proper 23A Text: Matthew 22:1-14 Give it up for weddings Raise your hand if you like weddings. All those happy people, the good food, a pervasive spirit of hope. Everybody dressed in their finest. The two, whose binding together we gather to support and cheer have never looked so beautiful and powerful. …
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Without moderation
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3 min read
You’ve no doubt heard this encouragement: everything in moderation. This is especially attractive in the church, where the every “thing” in question is likely to be that assorted list of “sins” that you just can’t help yourself with. That list has tough stuff on it, but also seemingly small things: alcohol smoking dancing (which…
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4 keys to engaging children in church
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4 min read
At a lecture in Atlanta recently, the Rev. Sam Portaro, author of Brightest and Best points out that “Children are actually written into Scripture.” They weren’t supposed to be seen. They were property. But Jesus spoke to them, healed them, accepted their donations, and told His disciples to be like them. We never take that last…
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Now posting daily, I swear!
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1 min read
As readers of this blog can attest, I have begun writing more consistently and regularly. My plans were already underway for building myself up for daily posting and then this plopped into my lap: The Post A Day challenge from The Daily Post. So I thought: Huh. I was going to do that anyway… And…
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Occupy Wall Street’s collective statement
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2 min read
For those following #OccupyWallStreet, click on their first collective statement. One of the criticisms of the movement has been their lack of central authority and a clear, concise statement of demands. What is unique to this movement, and more typical of organizations today, rather than 50 years ago, is the belief that the first step toward…
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Puritans: why Wall Street wasn’t occupied sooner
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3 min read
or #OccupyWallStreet and our fear of protests A favorite line over the last two weeks has been: I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner. Of course it did, but the media doesn’t really like protests. It is surprising since the news is all about sensationalism and big displays of strangeness and upsetting the status quo. It’s…
Make a New Normal
