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A shark on retreat
They say that a shark will die if it does not keep swimming. Invited into stillness and silence, I notice the tremor in my legs, swaying to and fro, dancing without rhythm to an unheard tune; the heaviness of tongue … Continue reading
The mind of Christ Jesus, the love of God
What if to have the mind of Jesus Christ, the living image of God was nothing more nor less than to regard that equality not as something to be exploited, but squandered in the service of love? Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon, story
Tagged AI, God, Jesus, kenosis, love, Philippians 2:1-13, Year A Proper 21
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Jonah
A sermon on the story of Jonah and Jesus’ parable of the generous landowner (Matthew 20:1-16) The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and of great kindness. (Psalm 145:8) Jonah experienced both the anger of God and the … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged generosity, Jesus, Jonah, Matthew 20:1-16, mercy, Psalm 145:8, Year A Proper 20
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Gentiles, tax collectors, and the beloved community
Owe no one anything, except to love one another, writes Paul to his congregation of Romans. And, it is written elsewhere, Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and … Continue reading
Posted in homily, lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged baptism, beloved community, Jesus, Matthew 18:15-20, Year A Proper 18
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Compassion and complicity
Pray for the people of Nepal and Tibet, the dead, the dying, the missing and the missed, the grieving, the helping, the despairing. Pray, too, that we might learn to promise never again to flood the whole earth, and, with our knowledge of good and evil, to find a way to keep it. Continue reading
Father, forgive
An inadequate poem after visiting St Michael’s Mount and encountering Lyn Constable Maxwell’s bronze of the Archangel in the island church. Continue reading
Posted in holy days, poetry
Tagged art, Coventry Cathedral, forgiveness, Jacob Epstein, Lyn Maxwell, sculpture, St Michael, St Michael’s Mount, war and peace
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Liberty is praying Psalm 93
Alone against the storm-wrecked sky she stands; her untired arm lifts up her light to greet the lightning flashing from on high, though to admonish or illuminate is in the beholder’s eye; her face is streaming, rivets making rivulets to multiply and fall, but for whom … Continue reading
Posted in poetry
Tagged Emma Lazarus, immigration, justice, Mother of Exiles, New Colossus, Psalm 93, Statue of Liberty
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The dance
We find these things to be true, and self-evident, that as good as we pretend or try or believe ourselves to be, we have by design created margins and marginalized other creatures created of God’s affection. That however hard we try to resist, or pretend to resist, the music of the swirl has us tapping our feet. That we have been the ones demanding that God jig to our tune. That we have been exhausting and exhausted. And that the only hope for rest lies elsewhere, with Other-Whom. Continue reading
Decentering
My grandmother was born in the Victorian age, half a United States of America ago and an ocean of war and plunder away; in the span of creation less than the blink of an eyelash. Such is living memory, expanding … Continue reading
A little life
Heron was back at the Lake tonight, along with ten thousand mayflies strewn across the surface like petals, wings still spread as though for flight, and I, no doubt with several pressed to my bosom like a medieval lover with … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, prayer
Tagged Creator, God, heron, J.B.S. Haldane, Lake Erie, Matthew 10:29, mayflies, sparrows
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