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Remembering our baptism

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

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Crossing the Jordan

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

It’s been twenty-nine years since I was in the Holy Land. My memories have become like a photograph album full of moments in time, frozen in stasis, many frayed at the edges or fading. There are a few that stand … Continue reading →

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Year C Epiphany 1: Come, Holy Spirit

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

The Gospels take a lot of short cuts through the life of Jesus. Whether they begin at his baptism, as does Mark, when he is already fully grown and ready to set out into the wilderness of temptation, and the … Continue reading →

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Year B Easter 6: water and blood, a Mothers Day proclamation

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

“This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.” I don’t … Continue reading →

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The Baptism of Our Lord: profession and practice

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

Let this be quite clear to us: the killing of innocents anywhere is not a religious act, not by the definition shared by Christians, Muslims, Jews; not by anyone who understands religion as the pursuit of God, the seeking out … Continue reading →

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Year B Christmas 2: the flight into Egypt and beyond

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

This is not a story about how special, important, and indispensable Jesus was; that his family out of all the others in Bethlehem was warned to get out of town, so that he alone out of all the little boys … Continue reading →

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Year A Proper 22: parables and other stories

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

There is a kind of through the looking glass feel to this parable. If you think of the classic fairy tale structure, where a king sends three messengers on a quest to redeem his belongings, in this case the wine … Continue reading →

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Bearing

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

It is such a little thing, to hang above my heart, given me at baptism, my magpie hands clutched at its shiny surface, all glistering and light; once clasped I hardly know I’m wearing my golden cross while sunrise shadows … Continue reading →

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First Peter: first thoughts

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

Haiku towards a reflection on the Flood and the ark as symbols of baptism: 1 Peter 3:13-22, Year A Easter 6 Children of the flood, each of us was drowned at birth, startled to breath.

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The Baptism of Our Lord

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

Today’s sermon began with yesterday’s story about Noah’s dove… Is this what Jesus meant, when he told his cousin John that he must be baptized to fulfill all righteousness: that he would have to go back to the beginning, when … Continue reading →

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