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Hope has teeth.
Tags: UncategorizedYeah, yeah, I misquoted Dickinson. (She wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” not “Hope’s the thing…”) But this is a meme I made a while back that isn’t really a meme because it’s not meming, but it does seem, unfortunately, to be evergreen: Feel free to use it if you like, though.
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Pop quiz!
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost—Proper 16, Year A, Track 1—August 23, 2026 Exodus 1:8-2:10Psalm 124Romans 12:1-8Matthew 16:13-20 The image above is a curious one. It centers the moment in today’s Gospel where Jesus sais to Simon, Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my…
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When God, um, “provides”?
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 15, Year A, track 1—August 16, 2026 Genesis 45:1-15Psalm 133Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 You will have had to do some reading on your own for all the details, but now the lectionary highlights reel brings us to the moment of truth, when Jacob’s brothers, who had sold…
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You get your sea legs by using them
The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost—Proper 14, Year A, track 1August 9, 2026 Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28Psalm 105:1-6, 16-22, 45bRomans 10:5-15Matthew 14:22-33 Julius von Klever was a prolific Russian artist (of Baltic descent, also known in Russia as Yuly Yulyevich Klever) who painted stunning, dramatic nature scenes and landscapes. This image, however, is considered to be of…
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It’s a struggle—and a blessing
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost—Proper 13, Year A, Track 1—August 2, 2026 Genesis 32:22-31Psalm 17:1-7,16Romans 9:1-5Matthew 14:13-21 The story of Jacob wrestling with the angel is one of my favorites. It’s such a strange story. On the surface, it’s an etiology explaining how the patriarch Jacob came to also be called Israel. But there’s so…
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Oh, there’s a lot of stuff in that treasury.
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 12, Year A, Track 1—July 26, 2026 Genesis 29:15-28Psalm 105:1-11, 45bor Psalm 128Romans 8:26-39Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 Traditional marriage, eh? <sigh> Today’s reading from Genesis is one I remember learning about as a child. I don’t remember much of how Sunday School teachers or others fielded any questions children had about Jacob…
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