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Learning to dance
Learning to dance the two-step, quick quick slow; sus- pended between beats, the kiss falling from your lips – let’s say that it was caught by One who had already fallen for you, who held it like a talisman, spinning … Continue reading
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Year C Proper 6: stories
This Sunday, I will most likely preach not from the pulpit but from the steps, sitting on the floor, in the middle of our Sunday School’s end-of-year celebration. With that change of perspective comes the realization that I can’t say … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon, story
Tagged Jesus, Luke 7:36-8:3, Simon the Pharisee, sinful woman, Year C Proper 6
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Year C Proper 6: David, Bathsheba, and Jesus go to Stanford
It may be that he should weep at her feet, and kiss them, the Son of David begging forgiveness, belatedly, of the daughter of Bathsheba. Continue reading
Year C Proper 5: the widows of Zarephath and Nain
A boy died in Zarephath, and his mother and Elijah cried out to God in anger at the injustice, in bitterness at the waste of life, saved by a miracle and spent so soon. Another mother’s son died in Nain, … Continue reading
Martyrs
The commemoration for tonight’s healing prayers, held in orange, is for Blandina and Her Companions, the Martyrs of Lyons. The Collect: Grant, O Lord, that we who keep the feast of the holy martyrs Blandina and her companions may be … Continue reading
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Year C Proper 4: un/worthy
There is a wideness in God’s mercy that covers the ends of the earth and beyond. The conveners of this lectionary clearly put these stories together to demonstrate to the listening church the breadth of God’s embrace, the wideness of … Continue reading
The Stone Mason
Only the mason knows the secret flaw carved into the setting of precious stones and metal, glorious, reflecting sunlight and the king’s delight, having built God a home, domesticated the Wild One, his prize. Inspired by the whorl and swirl … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, sermon preparation
Tagged 1 Kings 8:22-23, 41-43, Luke 7:1-10, Solomon's temple, year c pentecost 3
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Reasons to #WearOrange: Devaluation
A confession: when we are discussing the pros and cons of an apartment to rent, our family has come to use a rather disrespectful shorthand for one particular criterion. How “killy” the street or block has become the self-defining descriptor of … Continue reading
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Tagged "a bit killy", #WearOrange, grief, gun violence, parenthood
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Trinity 2016: Delight
Wisdom calls out – the wisdom of God; we may know her as the Holy Spirit. When she is spoken aloud, she becomes the Word. The Word was in the beginning, the yet unspoken, ever articulate Wisdom of God. Only … Continue reading
Posted in holy days, sermon
Tagged delight, Holy Spirit, John 16:12-15, Pentecost, Proverbs 8, Romans 5:1-5, Trinity Sunday
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Mother of sleepless nights
You are the Mother of all sleepless nights. Before the light was bound over to keep the peace till morning, you neither slumbered nor rested your eyes; before the darkness fell from sheer weary excess of hours; as long as … Continue reading
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