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The road to Emmaus
If the risen Christ stumbled through our doors, unexpected and unrecognized, visibly wounded in his head and his heart and his hands, how would we treat him? As a victim of our human violence, or as a threat? Continue reading
Posted in current events, gun violence, lectionary reflection, sermon, story
Tagged Luke 24:13-35, Year A Easter 3
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Easter 2023: it’s (still) a love story
It isn’t like any love story we could conjure up, because it is true, a true story: Jesus lived among us, the Son of God was crucified, descended to the dead, and on the third day rose again, and he could not wait to greet his beloved disciples on the road, could not wait to see their shining, astonished faces; he could not wait to love them back. Continue reading
Posted in holy days, homily, lectionary reflection, sermon, story
Tagged Easter, Jesus, love story, Resurrection
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Thursday
We pray in awkward whispers against the reredos of white towels fumbling over nervous feet held in stumbling hands, certain of nothing but betrayal, the cross to come, and sunset’s pale inversion in the water
Posted in holy days, poetry, prayer, story
Tagged betrayal, Easter, foot washing, Maundy Thursday
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Silence
And my teenaged ghost shook her head at how I had forgotten which rule most matters. Continue reading
Capitalizing on panic
On the stories we tell ______________________ I saw a story in the Washington Post where a man named Kevin Thomas started making pop-up safe rooms for schools – kind of like the panic rooms that became a status symbol in … Continue reading
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Tagged gun violence, school shootings, security
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Broken
A very, very little Lenten story Yesterday, I broke a clergy collar trying to fix it around my neck. I am trying hard not to make too much meaning of it.
Afterwards
It was the following day that sealed it for him waking with the rooster an hour before dawn the darkness of the room unfamiliar tangled in bedsheets he shivered still straining his hope to conjure up that sun light and … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, sermon preparation, story
Tagged John 11, Lazarus, Year A Lent 5
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Living water: A love story
Read in a certain way, the banter between Jesus and the woman can sound almost like a flirtation; but the spark is the long, slow heat of the love of God that has drawn each of them to an understanding of how God so loves the world.
In the noonday, the sun has stood still as they linger in the light of eternity. Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon, story
Tagged Genesis 1:1-2, Jesus, love story, Spirit, woman at the well, woman of Samaria, Year A Lent 3
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Living water
I have always loved the sea. Continue reading
Posted in holy days, lectionary reflection, poetry, sermon preparation, story
Tagged creation, John 4, living water, ocean, saltwater, sea, seaside, womb, Year A Lent 3
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Sinking sand
A little Lenten story An English seaside town, its name suffixed with something left behind by the Romans. A sandy beach with buckets and spades, Punch and Judy, donkey rides, sandwiches gritty with their namesake, seagulls looking for leftover ice … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, grace, Lent, Lenten discipline, seaside, sin
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