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Remaining at the Beginning
God A Sunday school teacher was watching one of her student drawing furiously during class. “What are you drawing?” she asked. “I’m drawing a picture of God,” said the boy. “But no one knows what God looks like,” said the … Continue reading
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Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day 4
16 I said to myself, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know revelry … Continue reading
Ecclesiastes for Everyone: Day One, Ash Wednesday
1 The words of Qohelet [the Teacher/Preacher][i], David’s son[ii], king in Jerusalem: 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, Vanity of vanities. All is vanity. In Percy Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a traveler tells that he saw a ruined statue in … Continue reading
Ecclesiastes for Everyone: A Lenten Devotional
Introduction Every Ash Wednesday, when I mark the cross with ashes on the foreheads of my parishioners, I say, “From ashes you have come, to ashes you will return.” It is not something I say lightly or easily. I wish … Continue reading
Spiritual Politics and other Rare Breeds
Writing almost 50 years ago, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk in Kentucky, wrote about what he called political principles spiritualized by the Gospel. In his book Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Merton’s reflections on society at large, he starts … Continue reading
Joy to the World
Introduction A young child was once chastised by his minister father, for keeping his eyes open while he prayed. The boy said to his father, A little mouse for want of stairs ran up a rope to say its prayers. … Continue reading
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Evangelicals Today
I used to consider myself an Evangelical. But then came the Moral Majority, and the politicization of faith. I felt more and more uncomfortable with my colleagues, and able to say less and less about them. I watched them head … Continue reading
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It has been a little quiet here the last few weeks. I have been busy doing the editing on a book of sermons, and it has just come out! It is published by Parson’s Porch Press, and is available … Continue reading
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City of Dreams or Nothing New Under the Sun
William Faulkner once said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Watching the various incidents concerning immigrants in America has driven that home. I have been reading Tyler Anbinder’s massive book, City of Dreams in my free time. It weighs in at 735 pages, … Continue reading
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From the Still Point 