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The Good King?
The violence we carry within us, the violence with which we respond to those around us, the violence on which our nation and world is built, all is judged in this story. Our hope lies not in a God who… Continue reading
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By Our Scars We Heal: A Sermon for the 2nd week of Easter
We are our bodies, we are our relationships, and every body and every relationship is where and how we love one another, how we join with Jesus Christ, who trampled down death by death so that we could become to… Continue reading
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Arcing Our Lives: A sermon for the sixth week after Epiphany
We are arrows in the quiver of God, shot forth to arc towards justice, mercy, peace, and love. The arc of the universe does not bend itself towards justice. We bend it. We are the universe into which God in… Continue reading
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Towards Good News
In Paul’s response, we recognize how incomplete our efforts to love others are. We live in a world where sometimes there seems to be no perfectly good choice. In the slave girl, we recognize what it is like to be… Continue reading
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Practice Resurrection, Eat Together
Jesus is with the disciples before they recognize who he is (sometimes long before they recognize it is him). And this doesn’t just happen once to those who love him, but over and over again. The disciples realize it was… Continue reading
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Remember that you are dust.
We can only identify our own shortcomings if we have taken a long look at ourselves. We can only help our neighbor if we have first taken the time to listen to what she needs. Continue reading
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Preach: God Hears Hagar and Ishmael (Genesis 16:1-16 and 21:9-21)
Hagar’s God is a god who helps us to keep our eyes opened wide, if only just to see the next step before us. Hagar’s God didn’t bring her to freedom though a fantastical parting of the red sea. No,… Continue reading
