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Between Advent 3 and 4 and Christmas (Year B)
The lectionary jumps a lot in these seasons. This jump takes away one of Luke’s best stories for describing the place of the Incarnation.
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Offering Water
In Pentecost, we have a miraculous event of divine communication. But the challenge is in remembering we are disciples.
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Being Good News
Being surrounded by bad news is exhausting. Trying to do good things can feel fruitless. And yet we know it is right.
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Avoiding the Gospel
In reading of Jesus’s visit to the synagogue, we are given a mirror to hold up to ourselves and see what we’d rather not.
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Gospel – what makes good news
Gospel, like “good news” is loaded. And WE don’t always like it. But the question was never whether we like it.
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Beyond Despair: Love
There is a common cry of despair in the people of Gaza that sounds so much like West Virginia coal miners and residents of Peoplestown in Atlanta, Georgia. A cry of hopelessness and existential angst we show little willingness to assuage. The global response to the Gaza protests and Israeli gunfire last week has brought…
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Gospel
I first really heard the gospel in school. I was in an undergrad Bible class on Paul; the kind of distributive requirement that seemed like a natural fit for me. English major; PK (priest’s kid). The professor was an Orthodox bishop, Makarios. And his thick Indian accent meant that we had to really listen. Listen…
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Seeing the Lord
The resurrection and how Jesus wants to be known Easter | John 20:1-18 Earlier this week We have come to the end of a long, truly holy week. So much has happened in the story since we gathered last week (was it really only a week ago?) and many of us could benefit from…