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oil poured on troubled water set alight: O God, make haste to help us.
Millstones
I preached a few weeks ago on the stumbling blocks that we set before our children: guns. Their prevalence and power have become stumbling blocks to our children, and blinders to keep us focused on fear. We hurtle headlong into … Continue reading
Posted in current events, haiku, poetry
Tagged children, Cleveland, guns, police, race, Tamir
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Signs of the times
It’s been a long week. It has left me ping-ponging between anger at the challenges young people face that we had never heard of growing up, and astonishment at how some of them respond with strength, dignity, friendship and love. … Continue reading
Posted in current events, poetry
Tagged parenting, school threats, sexting, technology, teenagers
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Sheep and goats: beyond the parable
The first goat I ever met as an individual, got to know as a person, as it were, lived in an urban back garden in Oxford, England. He did not, however, necessarily stay there. One evening, doing the dishes after … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon preparation
Tagged Matthew 25, parable, sheep and goats
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Still
A word of caution: Armistice: broken open by poets of war.
Posted in haiku, poetry
Tagged armistice, centennary, peace, veterans, war, wwi, wwii
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Year A Proper 27: Remembrance Day
The moral of the story that Jesus tells, the point of the parable is not “blink and you’ll miss it.” The kingdom of heaven is not a one-off, opportunity of a lifetime, miss it and you miss out, you should … Continue reading
Posted in sermon
Tagged 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, Amos 5:18-24, Matthew 25:1-13, remembrance day, veterans
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Apostasies
from the bible challenge blog God forgive us our daily apostasies: the taking of your name in vain, faking faith, defrauding love; the times we fail to call on you at all; the many ways in which our worship turns … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, prayer
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Lasting
Is this how it was for Adam and Eve: old as time and young as their memories; innocence easily beguiled, carrying still the remnants of chaos, shaken off to water the tree? And see who answers their tapping on the … Continue reading
Parabolic
It is often said, but bears repeating, that we have a tendency to tame Jesus’ parables. Familiarity breeds, if not contempt, at least complacency. When we stop hearing them as stories, and instead hear only the interpretation and allegorization and reenactment … Continue reading
Posted in sermon preparation
Tagged absurdity, Jesus, Matthew 25:1-13, parable of the bridesmaids, parables, Year A Proper 27
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