The Last Straw
Matthew 2: 1-12
Epiphany, Common Lectionary Year A
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Alone, Together in the Valley
In the year of disaster for the people of Judah, the hand of God rested upon the shoulder of Ezekiel,
and God’s brooding Spirit carried him up and set him down, and led him all around a valley of silent lamentation, filled with the bones of the dead.
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Shirley, Goodness and Mercy
I am of that generation that learned Psalm 23 by singing it to Crimond, singing the alto line in the parish choir of St. Christopher’s RC parish in England.
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Is God with us or not? (And how will we know?)
When I was about eight, my family went on holiday to the English Lake District. It’s a mountainous region in northwestern England formed by glacial activity that has left steeply carved, lake filled valleys, and cloud-scraping peaks.
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Nebulous Visibility
It must be ten years now since I read, in Desmond Tutu’s beautiful, and inspiring book “God Has a Dream,” his take on this long, highfalutin word “Transfiguration.”
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It’s Time to Choose
When we open the book of the Bible to “Deuteronomy”
we seem to be stepping back in time a loooooooong way.
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Salt, Light, Law, Love
It’s one of those Sundays when
we let the children slip out before we knuckle down to some grown-up conversation.
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Blessed and Blessing
Perhaps you have one of these on your wall, or perhaps your Gramma did, or a friend. The Beatitudes. The “Blessed ares”.
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Seeing the Goodness of God in this Land of the Living
This is Bree Newsome. On June 27, 2015, just weeks after Dylann Roof had shot, killed and injured worshippers at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, Newsome climbed the flagpole outside the State Legislature in Columbia, SC, and took down the Confederate Flag.
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Alone, Together in the Valley
In the year of disaster for the people of Judah, the hand of God rested upon the shoulder of Ezekiel,
and God’s brooding Spirit carried him up and set him down, and led him all around a valley of silent lamentation, filled with the bones of the dead. -
Shirley, Goodness and Mercy
I am of that generation that learned Psalm 23 by singing it to Crimond, singing the alto line in the parish choir of St. Christopher’s RC parish in England.
-
Is God with us or not? (And how will we know?)
When I was about eight, my family went on holiday to the English Lake District. It’s a mountainous region in northwestern England formed by glacial activity that has left steeply carved, lake filled valleys, and cloud-scraping peaks.
-
Nebulous Visibility
It must be ten years now since I read, in Desmond Tutu’s beautiful, and inspiring book “God Has a Dream,” his take on this long, highfalutin word “Transfiguration.”
-
It’s Time to Choose
When we open the book of the Bible to “Deuteronomy”
we seem to be stepping back in time a loooooooong way. -
Salt, Light, Law, Love
It’s one of those Sundays when
we let the children slip out before we knuckle down to some grown-up conversation. -
Blessed and Blessing
Perhaps you have one of these on your wall, or perhaps your Gramma did, or a friend. The Beatitudes. The “Blessed ares”.
-
Seeing the Goodness of God in this Land of the Living
This is Bree Newsome. On June 27, 2015, just weeks after Dylann Roof had shot, killed and injured worshippers at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, Newsome climbed the flagpole outside the State Legislature in Columbia, SC, and took down the Confederate Flag.