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Public Piety and the Pandemic
With or without the opportunity to have ashes put on our foreheads, we are invited to join in something important.
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Jesus Isn’t a Pez Dispenser
22. Nor does the pastor embody Jesus in the forced recitation of words, empty or well-meant. Virtually everything I teach conforms to historic Christian orthodoxy. And yet, there are many Christians who call me a heretic. Granted, I often call myself a heretic and encourage thoughtful followers of Christ to wrestle with many of the things…
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It doesn’t matter if you’re fake or authentic if you aren’t free
14. God cares no more for the true acts of piety than the empty if no one is made free. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom!Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 11 What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord;I have had enough of burnt-offerings of rams…
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So We Isolate Ourselves
9. But in the arrogance of Christian piety and Western intellectualism we seek isolation. Jesus wants us to be with one another. So why are we so divided? You know the problem. Or at least part of the problem. Our friends on Facebook have all lost their minds. And depending on where we sit, they’ve…
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Moving away from Anglo-Catholicism
I went to seminary to learn how to do church “right”. Seriously. That’s what I thought. I thought that going to seminary was about learning the methods, the practices. How to hold your hands and how to stand. One of my favorite moments from the end of the first year, when a few of us…
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ReMembering is Messy: Ash Wednesday and black thumbs
a Homily for Ash Wednesday Text: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 Beyond Black Thumb Day Today is Black Thumb Day. What? Never heard of it? It is the day that priests all over the world put on nice white albs, dip their thumbs in black, flaky ashes, and smudge those ashes on everything. It begins with people’s…
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Getting Good with GOD
a Homily for Proper 23B Text: Mark 10:17-31 Jesus and Money Following Jesus is hard. He told the disciples so when He recruited them. He told them that they would have to leave their families and their homes and their work and they went along with it. When He showed them what it would be…