All rights reserved
© Rosalind C Hughes and over the water, 2011-2026. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Rosalind C Hughes and over the water, with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing
https://bookstore.upperroom.org/Products/1921/a-family-like-mine.aspxWhom Shall I Fear: Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence
https://www.amazon.com/Whom-Shall-Fear-Questions-Christians/dp/0835819671-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
RevGalBlogPals
Meta
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Year B Proper 21: salted with fire
It was bedtime, so I gave the fire a stir to make sure it really was dying down, and of course, as fires are wont to do when stirred up, it sprang back into life. So the cat and I … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon preparation
Tagged Christianity, disciples, fire, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mark 9:38-50, salt, Year B Proper 21
Leave a comment
Rites of passage
My mother’s funeral did not take place in an American high school auditorum, neither was the local rag reporter in attendance. No one wore football pads or swimming gear; I was not in clericals, being unordained as yet, and having … Continue reading
The summer stole project
I know, summer is technically over, and we’re into autumn around here, but I promised finished photos of the t-shirt stole, and it’s a sunny day on the north coast, so … Recycling, knitting, and by no means least liturgy … Continue reading
Posted in knitting
Tagged beach baptisms, church, knitting, liturgy, recycling, stoles, t-shirts
Leave a comment
Seven signs that you may be taking a Sunday off …
1) The alarm is set an hour later than on Monday morning. 2) Sitting down for the sermon. 3) Sitting in someone else’s seat for the sermon. 4) Dancing (discreetly) with one’s daughter during the Communion music 🙂 5) Packing … Continue reading
Was Jesus married?
The Huffington Post is persisting in cluttering up my facebook newsfeed with tidbits designed to tantalize people into tearing out their hair over the marital status of Jesus. I am finding it difficult to get as over-excited as they would … Continue reading
Year B Proper 20: mixed motives
We are complicated creatures, we humans. We can hear a dogmatic statement that “whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all,” and right away, we can begin competing to come last, to be the … Continue reading
God-parenting
Many years ago, when my first daughter was a baby, I heard a sermon which took parents to task regarding their Christian responsibilities to their children. There were various points, and a story. The story involved the preacher’s own infant … Continue reading
Posted in other words
Tagged adolescents, babies, bereavement, children, God, loss, love, parenting
Leave a comment
Breathless
It isn’t as though there is not enough air to go around. Even the sci-fi movies – the ones I’ve seen- have yet to pit the black-hatted baddies against the white-toothed heroes over the last supply of oxygen for the … Continue reading
Year B Proper 19: Who do you say that I am?
My final sermon at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Elyria, Ohio, September 16th 2012. I love this parish, these people. I am so grateful for the opportunity to have served them and to have prayed with them and to have worshipped … Continue reading
Who do you say that I am?
free speaker, freedom fighter, freak, felon, rabble rouser, innocent, manipulator, incarnation, martyr-maker, messianic prophet, faker, visionary, revisionist preacher, pacifist, agitator, egocentric, faithful saviour, Son of God, Son of Man, who do you say I am?
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, sermon preparation
Tagged Jesus, Mark 8:27-38, Year B Proper 19
1 Comment
over the water 