Thursday, April 17, 2014

Good Friday, Holy Saturday: The absence of God

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"... for those who enjoy a degree of certainty in their faith, it may be that the blankness of Holy Saturday doesn't really 'bi...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Angry Monday: Jesus of Montreal and criminal disobedience.

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[Jesus] entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the t...
Monday, March 31, 2014

You feed them...

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The day was drawing to a close, and the twelve came to Jesus and said, ‘Send the crowd away, so that they may go into the surrounding villa...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Mothering Sunday or Mothers' Day? - The fourth Sunday in Lent

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While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, ...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Oscar Romero: Ministers, not Messiahs

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It is the anniversary of Archbishop Oscar Romero's death. Romero was shot in 198 0 while he was saying Mass , in a church in San Salvad...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Evensong - a poem by Stephen Cherry

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#BigRead2014 has been making recordings of people reading Stephen Cherry's Barefoot Prayers .  Today I read "Evensong" - one ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Mark Driscoll, and the theological holes in his rebranding

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I usually stay out of discussing Mark Driscoll. I don't warm to his style of ministry and what I've read and watched in the past see...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Nicodemus in Newark NJ

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This weekend I am "artist in residence" at Trinity and St Philips Cathedral, Newark NJ. The story of the weekend is Nicodemus vi...