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Pentecost dreaming
What happens [asks the poet] to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – … Continue reading
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Year B Easter 7: outside agitators and inside voices
The leaders in Jerusalem, religious and secular, were anticipating with no small degree of anxiety next weekend’s Festival of Weeks, or Pentecost, so called because it fell fifty (pente) days after Passover; a full week of weeks since death was … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, Acts 1:15-26, Christ, Cleveland, Incarnation, John 17:6-19, Michael Brelo, Pentecost, Tamir Rice
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Year B Easter 4: What’s in a name?
Eric Garner. Freddie Gray. Freddie Mercury. Machiavelli. What do these names mean to you? Try Jerry Falwell. Billy Graham. Denzel Washington. George Washington. John Paul II. John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Mother Theresa. Mary. Then, of course, there’s Jesus Christ of … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, Acts 5:1-12, Good Shepherd Sunday, John 10, Name of God, Name of Jesus, Year B Easter 4
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Transfiguration: no shades of gray, only glory
“For the glory of God is a living human; and the life of a person consists in beholding God. For if the manifestation of God which is made by means of the creation, affords life to all living in the … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, dignity, Fifty Shades of Grey, human trafficking, Irenaus, respect, Shannon Beck, Transfiguration
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