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I am from…
have you ever done one of these? I was introduced to the “I am from” form at a conference this week. Honestly, as an adoptee, an immigrant, an exile from my own history I don’t do well with the perennial … Continue reading
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
Posted in sermon
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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Serpent
Fashion your fear in all its detail. Make your sin shiny, sleek and dangerous. Fill its fangs with all the venom you can muster. Gaze upon it, and know that you are greater than the thing which you create. … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry
Tagged bronze, numbers 21: 4-7, poem, psalm 139, serpent, wilderness
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