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Year A Last Sunday after the Epiphany: Homeless Jesus and the Transfiguration
Some of you may have seen a news story this past week about a statue that has been installed outside an Episcopal church in Davidson, N.C.[1] The first time she saw it, one neighbourhood resident called the police, thinking that … Continue reading
Year A Advent 4: playing the fool
You have to wonder how many times Joseph had that dream. I mean, once is good; but after a few days, a weeks, wouldn’t you find yourself wondering all over again what was going on, worrying whether you had been … Continue reading
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Tagged 1Corinthians 1:25, Advent, Christmas, collect for Advent, dreams, foolishness, God, Incarnation, Joseph, Mary, Matthew 1:18-25, miracles, Psalm 14:1, Romans 1:1-7
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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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In bodily form
When our bodies betray us, let us down, we berate them, hesitate to call them holy, when, after all, they are the sacrament of God’s creative genius, each featherlight touch a reminder of the love that engendered our creation, redemption, … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, holy bodies, Holy Spirit, Incarnation, Luke 3:21-22, Sacrament, Year C Epiphany 1
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Christmas Day: John’s Prologue
Two of the three gospel readings that are offered for Christmas services in our lectionary use the story of the nativity from Luke, the story acted out in Christmas pageants and plays, the story of the manger and the shepherds … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas Day, Emmanuel, Incarnation, John 1, nativity, prologue
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Year B Proper 17: preaching the Song of Songs
Perhaps the most bewildering question about the Song of Solomon, or the Song of Songs, or Canticles – the book has gone by many names – is how it ended up in the Bible, a sacred text. Historical criticism insists … Continue reading
Monday, 19th December: The Annunciation Contd
The rest of a sermon delivered at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Elyria, OH, Sunday December 18th 2011 Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you. Mary was perplexed. She was confused, bewildered, frightened. She was thunderstruck, gobsmacked, utterly flabbergasted. She … Continue reading
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Tagged annunciation, God, Incarnation, Mary, miracles, year b advent 4
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