The story of Noah’s Ark is such a sweet story, isn’t it? You’ve got a big boat, a colorful lead character, animals marching two by two. We even have a big, beautiful rainbow wrapping itself around the story as the finishing touch. Because it is sooo cute, Noah’s Ark imagery is very popular for children’s [...]
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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 [...]
Proper 4, Year A, 2008
01Jun08Noah was a man with a vocation.
God called Noah, clear as a bell, and told him to build a boat. God told Noah to build a big boat. God told Noah to build a boat so big that it could hold a pair of every kind of animal under the sun.
Living in Crozet, we have [...]
Trinity Sunday, Year A, 2008
18May08Is an anatomy textbook more true than a C.S. Lewis novel?
These are not questions we can answer. An anatomy text book and a novel are trying to do two completely different things. An anatomy textbook certainly has lots of facts in it, (Did you know an adult human body contains 206 bones?), but a textbook [...]
Lent 1, Year A, 2008
10Feb08You’re a fraud, a fake, a charlatan.
That’s a rather rude way to open a sermon, isn’t it? Well, I can say all those things about you with great confidence, because I, too am a fraud, a fake and a charlatan. We all are. That is part of our human condition.
Being married has been extremely eye [...]
