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Is He Leaving?
A video reflection on this Sunday’s gospel: John 17:6-19.
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Not Head or Heart But Gut
Sometimes the way to where you need to go isn’t a straight line. And it isn’t the way your brain tells you to go. It isn’t where others direct you, either. But to get there, you must pass through the other options. One of my favorite bloggers, Deborah Bryan wrote yesterday about her “Further adventures…
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Love and Sacrifice
a Homily for Easter 6B Text: John 15:9-17 Last week’s Gospel pericope ended with verses 7 and 8 which read: If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and…
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He Truly Lived
a Homily for the Celebration of the Life of Fred Rouse Text: John 11:21-27 One of those curious things we deal with as Christians is that even though we believe in the resurrected Christ, we still fear death. In our own lives and to our loved ones. Despite all assurances to the contrary, death is…
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There is More Than Supply and Demand
One of my pet peeves is false dichotamies. You know, when we make complex problems into simple either/or solutions. Like politics. That’s why Robert Reich’s recent column struck me this morning as I read it. He was talking about what the U.S. could learn from the European economic crisis, which is a telling case of…
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Actual My Bloody Valentine albums to be released soon…
For those of us that are huge fans of My Bloody Valentine, the teasing that new material will eventually arrive is our catnip. We know better, but the mere waft of the scent sends us into crazy, delusional fits. Our brains no better: we’ve been promised new material for 20 years. That’s why any actual…
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Twisting in Intimacy
a Homily for Easter 5B Text: John 15:1-8 One of the problems we face when we read the parables of Jesus is that many of them have a light side and a dark side. They often illustrate what will happen when we are right with God and when we aren’t. Our saving grace, most of…
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Russell: ‘Sadly and literally a “Sign of the times”‘
Russell: ‘Sadly and literally a “Sign of the times”‘Amen.
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