Money Money
Pentecost 18C: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1, Psalm 79:1-9, 1 Timothy 2:1-7, Luke 16:1-13Jesus gives us another confusing contradiction in this week’s excerpt from Luke. In the Parable of the Dishonest Manager, Jesus tells the story of a manager who was embezzling m ...
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The Tyranny of the Lectionary
By The Rev. Bob Hooper
Confessional time: I, The Rev. Robert C. Hooper III have a love-hate relationship with the lectionary, the prescribed readings set forth by powers greater than me for Sunday mornings. See this is the thing; in the Episcopal ...
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Did Jesus Get Cranky Too?
I snapped at my daughter the other night over something trivial. As I helped her get ready for bed, she said something that hit me just the wrong way at just the wrong moment and I stormed out of the ...
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"Doom and Gloom"
Pentecost 17C: Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28Jeremiah 4:11-12: “At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights in the desert toward my poor people, not to w ...
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Science vs. Religion - Really???
I found this letter on a blog of an Episcopal priest I enjoy reading and find funny, insightful, intelligent and well informed - in other word we tend to see things the same way. While the issue of evolutionary science ...
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Keeping Sabbath: Quaint Tradition or Necessity?
It's easy to forget that keeping Sabbath is one of the ten commandments. The other commandments, about murder and adultery and theft, just make so much sense. Such things are so obviously bad; they interfere in such clear, stark ways ...
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Hate Your Family (and other requirements of Jesus Christ)
Pentecost 16C: Jeremiah 18:1-11, Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, Philemon 1:1-21, Luke 14:25-33
Let us see what Jesus is up to in Luke. Jesus is traveling with a crowd, turns to them and says that in order to be Jesus’ disciple one m ...
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Why is Youth Ministry So Important?
Long before my ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church (nearly 20 years ago now) I was involved in Youth Ministry in the Church. As a kid I was a regular Sunday school attendee, as a teen I was very ...
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Praying for Syria (& Not Knowing What Else to Do)
In January 1991, in the weeks before the first Gulf War, I walked the three-plus miles from the Washington National Cathedral in D.C. down to the White House, along with hundreds of other Christians praying, hoping, and marching for peace ...
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Growing up in Community
This past week I drove my son, Henry, to Fayetteville, Arkansas to begin his freshman year at the University of Arkansas. While preparing for the trip and driving (2700 miles round trip) I kept asking myself if Henry's mother and I ...
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