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All in the family way
It seems as though the depth and strength and sheer closeness of God’s love for us defies any single image of relationship that we can dredge up and dress in poetic language. God is our father and our mother and our lover.
And then, and then, God became flesh, and dwelt among us. Continue reading
Word, wordless
A brief message for Christmas Day If, like me, you have memories from long before you learned how to talk, then you know that even before it speaks an infant tells itself stories and lays them down, woven into the … Continue reading
Posted in holy days, homily
Tagged Christmas Day, John 1:1-14, John's Prologue, Word of God
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Mary’s song, our song
The name Mary cried havoc and announced the day of the Lord’s deliverance from the bonds of oppression. Mary’s word to the angel, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord,” was the acceptance of a mantle, the mantle of Miriam, the sister and peer of Moses. Mary’s, “Let it be with me” was saying, in effect, “Bring it on.” Continue reading
Posted in advent meditations, current events, sermon
Tagged Christian, Incarnation, Magnificat, Mariamme, Miriam, naming, Song of Mary
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Because love is the miracle
Love is what it takes
to make the other
miracles true… Continue reading
Posted in blessings, homily, poetry, prayer
Tagged love, marriage, miracle, wedding of Cana
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It’s (not too) complicated
It means beating swords into ploughshares, guns into shovels, removing them from the hands and the lives and the deaths of our children. There is no deeper shadow cast than the deaths of children, and the enormity of the problem before us is our mountain to climb. Continue reading
Posted in advent meditations, lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged Advent 2, gun violence, mustard seed faith, prophets
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Christ, the King, the way, the truth, the life
Standing before Pilate, Jesus conjures a vision of a kingdom in which the truth is not decided by the preferences of the powerful, nor is justice exacted by violence, nor does the law of the nations have the last word over it. The kingdom that Jesus brings is one in which the love of God stands resolute before the principalities that would lord it over him, and undermines them by refusing to accept the finality of their penalty of death. Continue reading
Posted in holy days, sermon
Tagged apocalypse, Christ the King, Daniel, Kyle Rittenhouse, Pilate, racism, Revelation, what is truth?
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For All Saints and All Souls
He has dwelt with us as our God; we are his people,
and God is with us; and as surely as Jesus wept for his own friend,
he will one day wipe every tear from our eyes. (after Revelation 21:1-6) Continue reading
Posted in holy days, homily, lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged grief, John 11:32-44, Resurrection, Revelation 21:1-6
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The man in the story is caught on the cusp of conversion, teetering on the brink of repentance, swaying toward Jesus but anchored by the lifestyle he has always known, the way it has always been. Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged Amos, church, Jesus, Mark 10:17-31, Year B Proper 23
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