Today should be called rhetoric Sunday! In all three of our readings this morning, we have preachers at the top of their game. It is impossible to read these three snippets of scripture without imagining them preached in booming voices. Our reading from Hebrews today has a particularly pleasing cadence. The author is describing the [...]
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Trinity Sunday, Year C, 2010
30May10Have you seen the movie Wall-E? While the protagonist of the movie is an adorable trash compacting robot, what I found really interesting was its depiction of humanity. In the movie, humans have evolved in such a way as to spare them any suffering. They float around in chairs, so they don’t have to walk. [...]
Advent 3, Year C, 2009
14Dec09Rejoice in the Lord Always! You brood of vipers! Let your gentleness be known to everyone. Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Do not worry about anything. The chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
Our Epistle and Gospel readings are having a strange conversation today, aren’t they?
On one hand, we [...]
Epiphany 4, Year B, 2009
02Feb09When I was ten, my father got diagnosed with high cholesterol. My mother was the cook in our house and within days she was deep in the American Heart Association cookbook and ordering a subscription to Cooking Light. Gone were the omelets, steaks, and sour cream from our lives. They were replaced by cheerios, pasta, [...]
Epiphany I, Year B, 2009
11Jan09My husband, Matt, just finished reading The Life of Pi. I read it a few years ago and don’t remember all the details, but when I began thinking about this week’s readings, I kept coming back to the main image of The Life of Pi, which is the image of a young boy, stuck on [...]
