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Among the living and the dead
When the demons saw Jesus, they were afraid. They begged for their lives. When Jesus showed mercy even to the demons, they proved their destructive nature by plunging the herd of swine into the sea. Did he not know it must be so? It was their nature to be evil spirits. It was, it is Jesus’ nature to be love. Continue reading
Goose
I knew that just because I was inadequate to the task, that did not let me off the hook for doing what I could to try to relieve the suffering of another creature. Seeing his pain made me, in some obscure way, responsible for his healing. Continue reading
Posted in current events, gun safety, story
Tagged Canada goose, Good Samaritan, gun violence, Luke 10:25-37
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It’s not nothing
What we did is not enough, but it was, I believe, inspired. What happened in DC this weekend is certainly not enough, nor is it yet even a done deal, but if it is a beginning, it is something. I remember learning about inertia in high school physics: a body at rest is inclined to continue to do nothing. A body that begins to move has the chance to collect momentum. Continue reading
Posted in current events, Gun control, gun safety, Whom Shall I Fear?
Tagged #GunstoGardens, gun violence
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Pentecost: fear and tailfeathers
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.” (John 14:27) “I do not … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Holy Days, sermon
Tagged baptism, gun violence, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah 6:14, John 14, LGBTQ, mass shootings, Ohio, Pentecost
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Do not harden your heart
More guns in our children’s schools do not make our children, nor their teachers, safer. Continue reading
Do not leave us comfortless
“Do not leave us comfortless.” What if our prayer was not for ourselves, for our own comfort, but that we might not be without comfort to offer to those who are beyond consolation? Continue reading
He descended into hell
He ascended into heaven,and sitteth at the right hand of God … Thence shall he cometo judge the quick and the dead,he who sitteth at the righthand of God who sees the sparrowin flight and will not leta feather fall … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Gun control, Holy Days, poetry, prayer, Whom Shall I Fear?
Tagged Ascension, gun violence, Hosea 11:3-4, Matthew 10:29, school shooting, The Apostles Creed, Uvalde
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Resolution
We are not trying to paper over the cracks. I hear the racism that drove a young man to Buffalo this weekend to kill people buying food. I hear the despair of the victims of crime, and those who feel imprisoned in their own lives. I am not suggesting, God forbid, that wearing orange, running a gun buyback, planting a seed makes everything ok. But as long as we have breath, we have to do something. Continue reading
Tabitha’s companions struggle “to assert her dignity and worth as a human being”
The women had come together to wash Tabitha’s body and commiserate, because there are always those spaces in time and culture where those who bear the title or burdens of womanhood need to come together for mutual support, encouragement, wisdom, laughter, and tears.
This may be one of those spaces in our time and culture. Continue reading
No exceptions
What are we afraid of? Expanding our understanding of what it is to be human? Jesus has already stretched it beyond our imagining, being both human and divine, mortal and resurrected, all at once. Continue reading
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