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Year C Proper 7: Angels and demons
In some ways, the man healed of demons in the Gerasene region of Galilee is the first preacher of the Christian gospel. He gets it – he really does! Even after years of torment at the mercy of a legion … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, demons, Gerasene, Jesus, Legon, Luke 8:26-39, scapegoat, spiritual warfare, The Screwtape Letters, Year C Proper 7
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Year C Proper 6: the sinful woman and Mary of Magdala
The question came up during our Tuesday bible study week whether the sinner who anoints Jesus’ feet in the Gospel according to Luke is, in fact, Mary Magdalene, mentioned further down the page. There is a long tradition in the … Continue reading
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Tagged dignity, equality, Gregory the Great, Jesus, Luke 7:36-50, Mary Magdalene, Pope Gregory, Rowan Williams, Susan Haskins, women's rights, Year C Proper 6
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Year C Proper 5: if I make my bed in the grave
The fact that the stories we hear today, which echo one another so clearly that these two women might have been related, one the great-great grandmother of the other, a sister several times removed; the fact that these stories revolve … Continue reading
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Tagged 1Kings 17:17-24, Biblical widows, Elijah, Jesus, Luke 7:11-17, Megan McKenna, psalm 139, Psalm 146, raising the dead, widow of Nain, widow of Zarephath
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Biblical widows and Granny Lyle
Granny Lyle was widowed in 1957. For as long as I knew her, she lived alone in a house not her own; she had never lived in her own home, going from her parents into service with the local doctor … Continue reading
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Tagged 1Kings 17:17-24, Daily Office, family, grandmothers, lectionary, Luke 18:1-8, Luke 7:11-17, Widows, Year C Proper 5
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Raising the dead
They say that Elijah raised a fatherless child, stretched out corpselike over his body, breathing for him, with him, breathing until his new life began. His mother, from then on, developed a habit of peering over his shoulder into the … Continue reading
Religious rituals and summer Sunday attendance
Two days after my mother died, at half past five in the morning, I heard a strange noise outside my bedroom window, the window of the spare bedroom in my parent’s house. It was a rasping, grinding, rolling, grunting, sighing … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Kings 18:20-39, centurion, church attendance, community, Elijah, family, funeral, healing, Hebrews 10:25, Jesus, Luke 7:1-10, religious ritual, ritual, summer
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Trinity Sunday 2013
(A sermon I won’t be there to preach, ironically because I am “suffering” from shingles. But my love and prayers are with the parish of Epiphany this morning, and I’m so glad to be in a relationship with them.) I … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Matthew 16:24-25, relationship, Romans 5:1-5, suffering, take up your bed, take up your cross, Trinity Sunday, Triune
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Pentecost 2013
It was Pentecost. The disciples were gathered all together in one place. And the Holy Spirit came among them like a rush of wind, like the breath of god, the sound of a mighty exhalation, god whispering in what might … Continue reading
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Tagged 25-27, Acts 2:1-21, adoption, children of God, Holy Spirit, John 14:8-17, Pentecost, Romans 8:14-17, Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu
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Scary monsters at play
This may be irreligious, but… Have you ever had that person in your life (perhaps you are that person) who thought that it was funny to jump out from behind the sofa and yell “Boo!” at the climactic moment of … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, God, horror movies, joke, Leviathan, Loch Ness monster, Psalm 104:26, sea monsters
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Year C Easter 7: the shadow side of miracles
I think that this has been the week for miracles. Finding Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight along with a young child alive felt pretty miraculous, didn’t it? Then on Friday’s news, maybe you heard as I did … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts 16:16-34, Amanda Berry, Ascension, Bangladesh, Cleveland, Gina DeJesus, Incarnation, Luke 24:50-53, Michelle Knight, miracles
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