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Do you remember Abbot and Costello’s routine “Who’s on First?” “Who’s on First?” is an epically long comedic bit about a disconnected conversation. Abbott and Costello are talking about a baseball team, but the players’ names are more than a little unhelpful. The first baseman’s name is Who. The second baseman [...]
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Epiphany 2, Year B, 2012
15Jan12Proper 28, Year A, 2008
16Nov08We have reached the end of Ordinary Time.
Sounds pretty dramatic, huh? The new church year begins on the first day of Advent, which this year is November 30th. Next week, we celebrate Christ the King day. So, for all intents and purposes, today we celebrate the last day of the church lectionary year. While we’ve [...]
Proper 25, Year A, 2008
26Oct08I have a bone to pick with this congregation.
I leave for two short weeks and you go ahead and finish the book of Exodus without me? What am I, chopped liver?
I guess I can’t expect the lectionary to stop when I take a Sunday off, but I will tell you that I did not expect [...]
Proper 19, Year A, 2008
14Sep08Preaching this passage just doesn’t feel right without Charlton Heston here to don a long wig, robe and staff and say something really commanding. For better or for worse, the images from 1956 movie Ten Commandments burn in our minds as our primary images from Exodus. To us, the parting of the Red Sea is [...]
Proper 16, Year A, 2008
24Aug08Welcome to Exodus! Where Genesis is about God’s creating the world and then covenanting with a particular people, Exodus is about the liberation of that people after they become enslaved by the Egyptians. Exodus also follows the Israelites’ subsequent search for the land promised to them by God. In our passage today, we find out [...]
