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Tag Archives: Transfiguration
Heaven on earth
Looking ahead to Sunday’s Transfiguration and the disciples’ awe-filled witness to the glory of God revealed in Christ, I have been thinking about religious experiences; extraordinary revelations of the divine. I occasionally wonder if I was “done out of” a … Continue reading
Posted in Holy Days, sermon preparation, spiritual autobiography, story
Tagged Incarnation, Transfiguration
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Last Sunday after the Epiphany: shining through
The closer we come to the core, the center of the gospel, the more clarity and the more mystery we encounter. On the one hand, the story is straightforward. A child’s board book would show Jesus and the disciples dusty … Continue reading
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Tagged #growrule, heaven on earth, Lent, Luke 9:28-36, Transfiguration
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Transfiguration
stripped to our atoms, our shining core, is glory [still] captive to chaos
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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Transfiguration
thunderous light falling crushing sight and sound, revealing in the core of being darkness split by the silver of a sharp-edged mirror sliver, cracked images dancing; resplendent shards
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged imago dei, Last Sunday after the Epiphany, Transfiguration
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Transfiguration
Early in the darkening dawn, shadows weighting their sight, waiting for the sun to rise on the Light of the World, blind their vision with magnesium-bulb brightness, harmonic resonance of lightning arcing between earth and heaven.
Posted in Holy Days, poetry
Tagged light of the world, Luke 9:28-36, Transfiguration
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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
