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Category Archives: current events
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
Posted in advent meditations, current events, poetry, prayer
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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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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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Rendering repentance
we have been charged first to love God, with all of our heart, and mind, and strength, and soul; and then to love our neighbours as ourselves. These are the faces that should open us up, unlock our compassion and our humanity. Continue reading
The myth of redemptive violence
We can move mountains, if our thoughts and prayers for the latest victims of violence are backed by faith in the one who loves us, rather than the myths sold us by our gun suppliers; if we remember who is was that sowed the Garden in the first place, and placed us in it. Continue reading
Guns kill people (updated)
At the risk of repeating myself, and with all respect to the dead and the injured and those who mourn them: Guns kill people. It is their raison d’etre. That being the case, we must control them. Continue reading
Guarding the dead
An earlier version of this post was published at the Episcopal Cafe on September 27, 2017 I had been traveling in a country not previously visited; we drove past houses, both small and a little larger, surrounded by fortressed fences, … Continue reading
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Tagged #takeaknee, kingdom of God, Rizpah
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A prayer for the end of the world
Make all things new; but do not rush forward to your new creation. Do not leave us alone at the end of the world. Continue reading
Apocalypse and Passover
In times such as these, our prayer is not for God to pass us by, nor to turn a blind eye. Our prayer is for God to be with us, to share with us a sign of God’s covenant: the blood poured out, the meal hastily shared. Continue reading
Posted in current events, lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged compassion, Exodus 12:1-14, Exodus 12:32, natural disaster, Pesach
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