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PokemonGO to the RNC
Are Pokeballs on the list of restricted items within the secure zone? Continue reading
Year C Proper 10: who is my neighbour? (read: which lives matter?)
It’s not a pretty story about being kind to people. Put it back into its context, in which Jesus is asked the question, not by a devoted disciple seeking enlightenment, but by a cynic trying to trip him up, looking … Continue reading
Morning Prayer for July 7, 2016: Psalm 18, Part I
Last time, I came back cold; colder than any living thing was meant to feel. Your burning coals, flung from your flaming tongue, extinguished themselves against the skin of my unclaimed body, and I didn’t feel a thing, except cold; … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged Daily Office, Psalm 18:1-20, Song of Solomon 8:7
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Samaritans and street vendors
Here’s what happens: the priest looks back and sees the Levite pass by. Their eyes meet. They are of the same tribe, and their unspoken concurrence in the decision not to stop reinforces itself in that consecrated moment of collusion, … Continue reading
Posted in current events, lectionary reflection, sermon preparation
Tagged Good Samaritan
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The business traveller
After the incident; forever after as he travelled from city to stone city, he would look across the crowd, scanning the horizon and its fall, not for danger – he never saw the robbers coming, never would – blissfully ignorant, … Continue reading
Year C Proper 9: Make Jerusalem Great Again
On this July fourth weekend, it is perhaps appropriate that we hear a word from some of our political campaigners.* Towards the end of Isaiah, the “Make Jerusalem Great Again” party is gaining in popularity. The prophet paints a vivid … Continue reading
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Year C Proper 9: God-mother
Children of the promise, your God
sings you lullabies of sweet surrender;
binds you with tenderness to her breast. Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, sermon preparation
Tagged breastfeeding, feminine divine, God, God as mother
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On being right
So the shock take-home of today’s lessons might be that the Gospel is not always about being right. James and John, two of Jesus’ inner circle of inner circles, right at Jesus’ side all the way to Jerusalem – they … Continue reading
Posted in current events, sermon
Tagged Galations 5:1-25, Jo Cox, Luke 9:51-62, Year C Proper 8
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Year C Proper 7: a brief litany of idolatry
The prophet drips irony using the voice of the idolatrous and indolent who say, “do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” It is in itself idolatrous: the idolatry of the one who worships their own … Continue reading
Elegy
The world is still, on the edge of tears, even as it continues, as it must, to turn night to day and business to money and traffic to weariness. The leaves tremble at an unseen adjustment of air pressure; an … Continue reading
Posted in current events, gun violence, prayer
Tagged grief, LGBTQ, ordination, Orlando
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