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Trinity Sunday: we who are many are one
It is the mutuality of the Trinity that we seek. We hear its echoes in our prayers: “though we are many, we are one body” (Romans 12:5). We come closest to it when we experience compassion. Continue reading
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Tagged Amos 5:8, COVID, crossroads, gun violence, John 12:32, John 3:17, John Donne, racism, Romans 12:5, Trinity Sunday
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Trinity Sunday: what will become?
Christ calls me to repentance. If I am to call myself a Christian, I have to do the work. Continue reading
Trinity Sunday, 2019
Within God’s perfect being is the reconciliation of relationship, the interplay of love, the communication of difference and solidarity. Those aspects of God promise that we are understood, that we are accepted in all of our difference, diversity, struggle, and longing; that within the heart of a God who knows all about it from experience, we are healed. Within the heart of a God who knows even brokenness, betrayal, the shadow sides of love, we are recognized, accepted, restored. Continue reading
Posted in Holy Days, sermon
Tagged baptism, connecting communities, hope, Trinity Sunday
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Fridays are for mortality
The choice of incarnation, an island carved out of immortality, implies that God is not immune to hard weeks. Continue reading
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Tagged birdsong, death, grief, immortality, Trinity Sunday
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Songs of praise to the Trinity
Our ancient creeds, our struggles to articulate what it means to say that God is God lead always, if they are faithful, back to worship: wonder, love, and praise that God, our God, should be so gracious as to bless us with God’s very being. Continue reading
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Tagged blessing, Edwin Hatch, Nicene Creed, Trinity Sunday, worship
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Trinity 2016: Delight
Wisdom calls out – the wisdom of God; we may know her as the Holy Spirit. When she is spoken aloud, she becomes the Word. The Word was in the beginning, the yet unspoken, ever articulate Wisdom of God. Only … Continue reading
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Tagged delight, Holy Spirit, John 16:12-15, Pentecost, Proverbs 8, Romans 5:1-5, Trinity Sunday
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Trinity Sunday 2013
(A sermon I won’t be there to preach, ironically because I am “suffering” from shingles. But my love and prayers are with the parish of Epiphany this morning, and I’m so glad to be in a relationship with them.) I … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Matthew 16:24-25, relationship, Romans 5:1-5, suffering, take up your bed, take up your cross, Trinity Sunday, Triune
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Trinity
Trinity (in preparation for Sunday) When the children were little, and they wouldn’t listen, they wouldn’t play nicely, or tidy their toys, or eat their greens, or let go of the poor cat’s tender tail, I would say, “I’ll count … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, children, counting, one, parenting, poetry, three, Trinity, Trinity Sunday
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