Tag: Christianity
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When you’re called by God
The Second Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 5, Year A—June 7, 2026Track 1* Genesis 12:1-9Psalm 33:1-12Romans 4:13-25Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 *In the Episcopal Church, there are two “tracks” during Ordinary Time following Pentecost; each follows different readings from the Hebrew Scriptures and accompanying Psalms. You’ve gotta hear this song by Tara Vanflower:…
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Happy Pride!
(The kids are alright) Detroit’s Pride festivities are this weekend, but the whole month celebrates the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community. And I should note upfront that the subject of this blog post is not my area of expertise, so please fact-check. I was grading papers this week. One student,…
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It’s complicated.
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday Genesis 1:1-2:4a 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Matthew 28:16-20 Psalm 8 The image above is a popular iconographic depcition of the Holy Trinity, interpreting the three angelic visitors received by Abraham and Sarah as a representation of the Trinity. You can see many different versions…
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Remember the Point
Pentecost (Whitsunday), Year A—May 5, 2026 Acts 2:1-21 or Numbers 11:24-30 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 or Acts 2:1-21 John 20:19-23 or John 7:37-39 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 The lectionary is a choose-your-own adventure today. By way of explaining the enormous list above: It’s the custom in Easter for the first reading to be from Acts;…
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God’s DNA
The Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A—May 17, 2026 Acts 1:6-141 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11John 17:1-11Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36 My apologies for the lateness of this post; it was an unexpectedly busy weekend—I was barely at home, and when I was, I really had to sleep. For Christians in the Modern era,…
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Us and Them
The Sixth Sunday of Easter—May 10, 2026 Note: I may revise this post later in the week. I had nearly finished it when my computer restarted for software updates and while the site keeps saying, “auto-saving,” it apparently did no such thing. Acts 17:22-31 1 Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21 Psalm…
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Doing Jesus’ works
The Fifth Sunday of Easter—May 3, 2026 Acts 7:55-60 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 I find it weirdly fitting that the feast of St. Stephen falls the day after Christmas, as if to remind us that the Incarnation of Christ has implications. We are now on the…
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When we can’t tell Christ from Hermes
The Fourth Sunday of Easter—April 26, 2026 Acts 2:42-47 1 Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10 Psalm 23 In today’s epistle, someone writing as St. Peter reminds Christians who are suffering for their faith that Christ also suffered unjustly, entrusting himself to God. In doing so, he set a model for us.…
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Learning a new way to see
The Third Sunday of Easter—April 19, 2026 Acts 2:14a,36-41 1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 24:13-35 Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17 In his 1991 book of essays, AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History, Jerry Herron writes about a paradox that was true several decades before and after his book came out: Detroit, in…
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Alive, with scars to prove it
The Second Sunday of Easter, Year A—April 11, 2026 Acts 2:14a,22-32 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 Psalm 16 The Second Sunday of Easter is sometimes called “Lowsunday” or “Low Sunday,” referring to attendance in church. Not only the twice-a-year attendees, but even the most faithful congregants seem to be tapped…
