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January 2014

January 04, 2014
According to Matthew, the  crowd sees and hears John the Baptist thundering words of warning...

December 2013

December 31, 2013
  In the beginning  .  .  .  .  The roar of white-hot, full-throated argument erupts...
December 22, 2013
Good news;  but if you ask me what it is, I know not; It is...
December 21, 2013
Born in the night, Mary's Child, a long way from your home. Coming in need,...
December 14, 2013
mind without soul may blast some universe to might have been, and stop ten thousand...
December 07, 2013
We are all called to be mothers of God, for God is always waiting to...
December 01, 2013
Flood, fire, The desiccation of grasslands, restraint of princes, Piracy on the high seas, physical...

November 2013

November 25, 2013
The eyes huddle like cattle, doubt Seeps into the pores and power Ebbs from the...
November 17, 2013
That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I...
November 09, 2013
Suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us...
November 04, 2013
There are more violent stories about women in the Bible – the rapes of Tamar...

October 2013

October 27, 2013
Zaccheus was a wee little man.  We sang that loud and proud in Sunday school...
October 20, 2013
Another morning and I wake with thirst for the goodness I do not have. I...
October 12, 2013
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is...
October 05, 2013
God of the sparrow God of the whale God of the swirling stars How does...

September 2013

September 28, 2013
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the...
September 22, 2013
There is another Lazarus in the gospels, besides the fellow who came out of his...
September 14, 2013
Who doesn’t serve money? Money, money, money Must be funny In a rich man's world...
September 07, 2013
Often, in public prayers, there are litanies of the great acts of God – who...

August 2013

August 31, 2013
Essential to relationship with God, is leaving home.  Adam and Eve left home for the...
August 24, 2013
Dropsy – It’s an old, old diagnosis of an old, old human sorrow:  grotesque swelling...
August 18, 2013
Sabbath.  The seventh day alone is not enough to bring Sabbath to us.  Sabbath arrives...
August 11, 2013
What shall we make of Jesus' words:  I came to bring fire to the earth...
August 04, 2013
How do you store up treasures in heaven?   What do you put in your purse...

July 2013

July 29, 2013
Once, and with sadness, a lawyer on the brink of retirement told me he had...
July 21, 2013
Luke writes that Jesus was praying, and then a disciple asked him to teach them...
July 14, 2013
Briefly, Luke tells the familiar vignette of Martha and Mary.   Jesus and his friends have...
July 01, 2013
Who is my neighbor?  asked the lawyer, testing Jesus in that age-old theological sport:  debate. ...

June 2013

June 30, 2013
Commissioning the Seventy – the roots of the early church are in this story.  The...
June 23, 2013
Midsummer.  The longest day comes, bearing sweet fulfillment everywhere, and also sadness that the fullness...
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