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This morning’s prayer is for those carrying their grief under their skin, pricked by memories. Continue reading
Crossing time
This time next week, I hope to have reached the mountaintop. Between here and there is a steep and rocky ridge. Last time I crossed Crib Goch, it was on my hands and knees. My ambition, some quarter of a … Continue reading
Good Friday: his own people
At the beginning of the Gospel according to John, we read that, He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Holy Days, homily, meditation, poetry, sermon
Tagged Good Friday, Jesus, John 1:10-11, sean spicer
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Hope in the ashes
There is hope in cold ashes. We do not “do” Lent, we do not approach the fast as those who have no hope, or as though who fear the fire. For God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and … Continue reading
Posted in Holy Days, Uncategorized
Tagged Ash Wednesday, ashes, daffodils, Incarnation, Lent, William Wordsworth
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Forty days of fear
The most ubiquitous instruction in the Bible, we are told, is this: Do not be afraid. And yet, its counterpart is not unfamiliar, either: Fear the Lord your God. Ash Wednesday marks the first of forty days of Lent. It … Continue reading
Healing Spiritual Wounds, by Carol Howard Merritt (Book Review)
I love a good story, and Carol Howard Merritt’s book, Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with a Loving God after Experiencing a Hurtful Church, is full of them. But it is not just a memoir of leaving one theological tradition for … Continue reading
Beatitudes
A sermon for the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, and the aftermath of an executive order turning away refugees and other immigrants (including green card holders) from seven nations. The Gospel was the Sermon on the Mount: the Beatitudes (Matthew … Continue reading
Posted in Blessings, current events, Uncategorized
Tagged beatitudes, immigraton, Matthew 5:1-12, Micah 6:8, refugees
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