Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26
Advent 4B
[…] to be dropping out on many parts of our lives and of our world. And though we are now in the last Sunday of Advent 2020 with Christmas a scant five days away, we have to face the fact that we are in the midst of a long, dark winter. Hope may be on […]
Romans 16:25-27
Advent 4B
[…] So perhaps this Sunday God’s adopted sons and daughters can at least begin to turn from Advent’s hymns of longing such as “Come, thou Long-Expected Jesus” to Christmas carols’ “Joy to the world, the Lord has come.” And perhaps near the end of 2020’s utter strangeness and the beginning of 2021’s complete mystery, we […]
1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Epiphany 4B
[…] “knew” these things were tempted to look down on people who worried about eating food people had sacrificed to an idol. I’ll never forget the extended family Christmas party that my distant cousin soured with condescension. This formally educated person made a condescending remark about my formally uneducated cousin’s work as a refuse hauler. […]
1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a
Proper 7C
[…] them back together with the glue of grace. I once read a story about Tommy, a little six-year-old boy in Kindergarten. For a couple of weeks before Christmas all the children in the class worked on a very special present for their parents and on the final day of school before the Christmas holiday […]
Isaiah 11:1-10
Advent 2A
[…] treat each other well. Will people? As a text at the midpoint of Advent, Isaiah 11 reminds us that for all the ways we try to downsize Christmas and make it neat and tidy and local and mono-toned (all peace, joy, and cheer for ME!), the coming of God’s Chosen Messiah is finally so […]
Isaiah 35:1-10
Advent 3A
[…] 35 has to take a little timeout to acknowledge the presence of the hurting and doubtful among us, so we as preachers need to take Advent and Christmas timeouts to recognize that not everyone in the “holiday season” is festive. Not everyone wells up with tears when they sing “Silent Night.” Some people are […]
The Innocents (2016)
[…] sure, close in its picture of God’s holy family and, yes, kingdom come. Maybe the film should end there, but there is a postscript of sorts. At Christmas one nun arranges for a photograph of this new reality and sends it to the now long-absent physician rescuer who looks at it ever so wistfully, […]
Wide Awake (1998) – 1
[…] just about everything a ten-year old can find on the new resource called the internet. And in pursuit of such, sometimes one does strange things at class Christmas parties. None provide an “answer” for Josh, and by spring he is resigned to admitting that God is not there, at least in any way that […]
Lent 2: Christ the Hen
[…] from some church leaders about the threat represented by such-and-such a political figure, by this or that organization, by the so-called “culture war” or “the war on Christmas.” Some keep saying that it’s the people “out there” who are the problem. But sometimes the longer and louder we say that, the more people “out […]
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