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One verse, three translations
Not even, really, one verse, but a fraction, a phrase, a few words lost between languages, wondering how to tell us the truth about God. First, the Revised Standard Version of the first verse of the Psalm assigned for the … Continue reading
Easter
Someone called John tells an Easter story: It was dark. It was so early, it was still late, but she couldn’t sleep. It was too still, too cold, too dark and silent. So she went to be with him in … Continue reading
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Tagged Easter, John 20, Mary Magdalene, Resurrection
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John 3:16
For God so loved the world he came between a mother and the baby at her breast so that each saw the image of love reflected in the other’s eyes God so loved the world that he sat at the … Continue reading
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Tagged John 3:16, Trinity Cathedral Cleveland, Year B Lent 4
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Serpent
Fashion your fear in all its detail. Make your sin shiny, sleek and dangerous. Fill its fangs with all the venom you can muster. Gaze upon it, and know that you are greater than the thing which you create. … Continue reading
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Tagged bronze, numbers 21: 4-7, poem, psalm 139, serpent, wilderness
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Lent-check
Matthew 20: 17-28 Jesus predicts his suffering and death – and the disciples’ response still leaves a little something to be desired. They have got past last Sunday’s denial of the whole horrible thing – they can, perhaps by now, bring themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged greatest, james and john, Jesus, Mark 10: 32-45, Matthew 20: 17-28, way of the cross
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Year B Lent 2: The cross: hoping against hope
Jesus began to teach his disciples that he, the Son of Man, must undergo great suffering and be rejected by his own people, and killed, and after three days rise again. The promise of God with us is a strange … Continue reading
Year B: Last Sunday after the Epiphany
When I told my youngest child that my mother had died, she said, “But she was supposed to get better!” A week or so later, when I was talking to my father about talking to an old friend, he asked, … Continue reading
Year B Epiphany 6: people first
I mentioned earlier this week the ecumenical lectionary group that I am blessed to attend each Tuesday morning, and my colleagues’ influence on my understanding of this Sunday’s readings. A few days later, I am still grappling with one of the effects of hearing, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Kings 5, healing, Jesus, leper, leprosy, Mark 1: 40-45, person-first language, Year B Epiphany 6
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Year B Epiphany 6: Who does he think I am?
I’m not preaching this Sunday, but I did attend my regular weekly appointment with an ecumenical group of local preachers yesterday, and this is what struck me when I listened to the reading from 2 Kings (once more realizing that … Continue reading
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