Serving God by Doing Laundry and Rocking Babies
It makes sense that God became incarnate as a man. Not because God is one gender or the other, but because in Jesus's Palestine, a woman would not have gotten the public attention that Jesus got. A woman's wisdom, acts ...
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A Good Origin Story
Easter 4ARemember the good old days when Christians were all completely devoted to the apostles’ teachings? When they committed their time to eating with each other all the time and worshipped together and sold their possessions whenever someone in their m ...
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A Day of Rest
Bob takes a day of rest in Burgos, Spain after walking one third of the Camino. Follow this link to read his most recent post, and check out a few more while you're there. ...
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20 Minutes on Facebook
Every now and then, a blog post or essay comes to me nearly fully formed. I feel more like I'm taking dictation from my brain instead of writing. This doesn't happen often, but it feels great when it does. The ...
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Making Invisible Visible
Easter 3A
It’s amazing how we can walk right by and even look directly at someone we know and not recognize them.
A video caught my eye this week—one in which friends and family members of unsuspected people wer ...
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For the Love of God
Saturday night, as we drove south on Route 9 in the rainy twilight, a billboard shone out from the gloom. In huge white letters on a red background were the words, "Jesus, I Love You." Although I've seen this billboard before ...
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Plains, Trains, and Automobiles
Rector Bob Hooper has arrived in Spain, and he's made the first post in his blog.When you get to his blog, click follow and you can keep up with his pilgrimage. ...
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Pointers of Faith
Easter 2AIf read out of it’s proper context, this Sunday’s reading from Acts would make it seem like Jesus’ disciples had really moved on after just about a week since Jesus’ death. We’re actually well beyond Good Friday wh ...
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The Blame Game
Good Friday:Everyone loves a good blame game. On whom do place the blame for our social ills? Guns, bad schools, broken families, republicans, democrats, the media, violent video games, conservative Christians, liberal Christians, the gays, or just society at ...
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Glimpses
The Rev’d Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told his supporters once that he had “seen the Promised Land.” He told them that though he may not get there with them, he wanted those in the crowd that night to know ...
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