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Excuses & Apologies
Tags: UncategorizedIf this is pinned, it’s got new information Hi there! I haven’t given up blogging the lectionary, I’ve just fallen behind. Overwhelm is real and threatening to morph into depression. I will still write the missing post later this week. Be well, –Elaine
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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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From home to Home
Tags: UncategorizedI’ve arrived in Detroit. To me, Detroit is home, but not in a sentimental or nostalgic sense. In the past week when I mentioned to anyone that I was headed to Detroit, usually their response was something like, “Oh, are you going to see family?” Well, sort of. I’ll see family next week, when I…
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Othering, Eight Mile, and Original Sin
Earlier this week, a Detroit pastor was shot dead while asking his partying neighbors to keep the noise level down. I read the online article from WDIV, channel 4. I know better, but as with any bad habit, I did it anyway: I read the comments. They rivaled the story itself as examples of heartbreaking…
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A Psalm for Detroit
Tags: DetroitAs Detroit enters bankruptcy, this Psalm comes to mind. Let all who rejoice at my ruin be ashamed and disgraced; let those who boast against me be clothed with dismay and shame. Let those who favor my cause sing out with joy and be glad; let them say always, ‘Great is the LORD, who desires…
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The “Good Samaritan”
Once again I’m blogging on a lectionary passage at the end of the day, just as it’s fading from view to be replaced by next Sunday’s texts — at least for sermon-writers. But the rest of us churchgoers can spend a bit more time with today’s Gospel. So here goes. In light of the “not…
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Crumbs of Christ
Tags: Theological reflectionAs I partook in that great banquet—a tiny bite and sip of Infinity—I reflected on the hardened crumb in my left hand. It became for me an icon of our Lord’s chosen vulnerability. On Saturday, we ordained a new deacon and a new priest at the cathedral where I work. The diocese‘s new Canon to…
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