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The Trouble With Jubilee – Epiphany 4C
Notes for Epiphany 4C | Luke 4:21-30 [Note: For part 1, see Epiphany 3C] The story continues from last week, when Jesus has left his wilderness temptation alone and begun his ministry by first heading home and going to the Synagogue to preach. Let’s begin by saying that is a pretty audacious thing to do.…
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Writing Goals for 2016
We all need goals. I see them like the map to the destination. I won’t know when to turn where until I get to the road anyway, but at least I know my direction. I’ve taken on my three words for this year and am making them more a part of my routine. I remain conscious…
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The Second Most Important Reason to Stop Shaming Children
We have got to cut it out. From the Dad who shot his daughter’s laptop to the Mom who made her son stand on a street corner with a sandwich board sign. May as well be a scarlet letter. These methods don’t work. [bctt tweet=”‘I didn’t know what else to do!’” nofollow=”yes”] And we know…
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Find Love, Make Love
“Make love” is a great phrase. I’m really captivated by this simple phrase: make love. Beyond the childish euphemism to sex, there is a potent mix of fascination and intimacy. We are pulled into each other’s orbits, physically present with someone, and it is in that place love is made. [bctt tweet=”Making love is the most dangerous…
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Coming Home
The Spirit which came upon him and moved him to go into the desert. Now within him. No disciples yet. Just the Spirit. Jesus returns with one heck of a sermon Epiphany 3C | Luke 4:14-21 The first sermon For as powerful as his storytelling and rhetoric is, if this is an example of Jesus’s preaching,…
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How We Balance Life and Death On One Word
The Supreme Court has let us off the hook again. I don’t really think we’re cruel people. But the evidence again proves me wrong. The Supreme Court, in its 8-1 decision in Kansas v. Carr did not rule on a landmark Death Penalty case. It is only landmark for those three persons on death row who…
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It May Have Happened Sort of Like This
Trying to Explain the Nature of the Anglican Communion to Someone Who Should Know Better As most of you already know, the primates of the Anglican Communion met last week in Canterbury. Now, it was kind of a — What’s a primate? It is the bishop chosen to represent the Anglican Church of a given…
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Some Further Thoughts on Politics, Primates, and Problems
Everybody thinks it is complicated. On Sunday when I announced that we would cover some of the recent primates’ meeting in our Basic Anglicanism class, one of our parishioners leaned over and said: There’s nothing basic about that. That’s Advanced Anglicanism. I couldn’t agree more! The problem is that it is splashed all over the papers…
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