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Advent
Dangerous moments in a darkened womb; the unfamiliar arrhythmia of travel, the fresh, tart taste of fear filtered through amniotic fluid, lullaby of strange sirens steering the weary; sunk in your swaying sea, time contracts creation to a singularity still … Continue reading
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Mangled time: a love story
Advent is not the most comforting season of the liturgical year. It itches with anticipation. It scratches at the walls like a prisoner counting out the days. It mangles time, mixing up what has been with what will be, preparing … Continue reading
Posted in advent meditations, lectionary reflection, sermon, story
Tagged Advent, gospel, keep awake, love story
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Kamehameha and Emma
These two monarchs are commemorated with the same gospel as we read on Christ the King Sunday, because they modelled their reign on public service, serving as shepherds of their people, and feeding the flocks entrusted to them with justice and mercy, except, it seems, for the occasional accident. Continue reading
The Shepherd King
The judgement that Jesus describes is the judgement that the prophet Ezekiel promises to the sheep of God’s hand. “I will feed them with justice,” says the Lord.
And what is the justice with which they are fed? Continue reading
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Tagged Christ the King, Ezekiel 34:11-24, God, judgement, justice, Matthew 25:31-46, mercy, mission, shepherd
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Telling
We are not Survivor. They took our bodies down, stripped and swaddled, spiced and laid, restless. We are not Victim, though they nail us to whatever piece of wood they find to hand. We are Resurrection. Bury us deep as … Continue reading
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Revolution
Two centuries after the Declaration of Independence, and two millennia after the birth, death, and resurrection of the Christ, we are still prone to fall back on familiar figures of authority, and to forget the revolutionary promises of the gospel. Continue reading
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Tagged emancipation, God, gospel, Magnificat, parable, parable of the talents, revolution
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Spoken and unspoken
I tell you this one, so that we can laugh, and turn our backs for another century or so on the graveyards full of other, rotten bodies. Continue reading
This world
A word of scripture whispered in my ear and would not let me go. Continue reading
Posted in current events, gun violence, prayer, story
Tagged All Saints, communion of saints, Episcopal Cafe, Sutherland Springs
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Blessed saints
This is the life which God has created especially for us, so that we might become fully human, creatures made in the image of our Creator, learning to reflect and resemble the divine. It is in this life that we are commanded to see one another through the lens of God’s compassion, justice, and love, to the very best of our ability. Continue reading
Posted in holy days, sermon
Tagged All Saints, beatitudes, comfort, evangelism, family, grief
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Reading the road signs
Emerging from the mist of the mountain road, a yellow caution sign:
Warning: tree on the way Continue reading
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