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2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Lent 4C

[…] gets to work, moves into Edna’s barn, and befriends her children. But then comes someone who’s far more problematic, who’s dumped on Ms. Spaulding by the slimy banker who proposed she sell the place to the bank and send her kids away. The banker’s brother-in-law Will, blinded in the First World War, has come to […]

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Colossians 1:15-23: Every Creature – Day1 series: Faith and Science, part 1

[…] Through a series of incidents, people who otherwise might not know each other find their lives intertwining. Mack is a white guy who is a rich investment banker; and Mack gets to know Simon, an African-American guy who drives a tow truck for a living. And then their families get to know each other […]

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Psalm 15

Proper 17B

[…] loan. Years ago on the TV sitcom “Happy Days” the character of Fonzie tries to get a loan to start up his own business and so a banker visits him in the Cunningham living room.  At one point the banker asks him what his collateral is to support getting a loan and when Fonzie […]

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Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

[…] of praetor (one who presides over the courts) or even to the supreme power of the consulship, of which there were only two. Ordinary senators were ” bankers, businessmen, and landowners from all over Italy; wealthy, cautious, and patriotic; suspicious of the arrogance and show of the aristocrats. These were [Cicero’s] people, and observing […]

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“A Favorite Fallback for Foulups: ‘Mistakes Were Made’”

[…] general. In January 1997, he acknowledged that the White House should not have invited the nation’s senior banking regulator to a meeting where Mr. Clinton and prominent bankers discussed banking policy in the presence of the Democratic Party’s senior fund-raiser. ‘Mistakes were made here by people who either did it deliberately or inadvertently,’ he […]

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Colossians 1:15-28

Proper 11C

[…] Through a series of incidents, people who otherwise might not know each other find their lives intertwining. Mack is a white guy who is a rich investment banker and Mack gets to know Simon, an African-American guy who drives a tow truck for a living. Then their families get to know each other a […]

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Psalm 51:1-12

Proper 13B

[…] In January 1997, he [also] acknowledged that the White House should not have invited the nation’s senior banking regulator to a meeting where Mr. Clinton and prominent bankers discussed banking policy in the presence of the Democratic Party’s senior fund-raiser. ‘Mistakes were made here by people who either did it deliberately or inadvertently,’ he […]

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Psalm 51:1-12

Lent 5B

[…] In January 1997, he [also] acknowledged that the White House should not have invited the nation’s senior banking regulator to a meeting where Mr. Clinton and prominent bankers discussed banking policy in the presence of the Democratic Party’s senior fund-raiser. ‘Mistakes were made here by people who either did it deliberately or inadvertently,’ he […]

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Isaiah 12:2-6

Advent 3C

[…] Jesus and you’ll find God depicted as a landlord, an unjust judge, a farmer, an old woman in search of a lost coin, a waiting father, a banker.  Jesus described himself variously as bread, light, a vine, a door, a gate, a road.  Not to be outdone, the third person of the Trinity, the […]

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Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

Lent 4C

[…] just lost but in no danger per se (can a coin even be in danger, I mean aside from falling into the hand of shifty Wall Street bankers?).  Still, Jesus is hammering home a central point, a point so vital that he tells not one story but three.  As Calvin Seminary Professor of New […]

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