Tag: God
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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. Among the various images portraying Paul’s speech to…
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Doing Jesus’ works
The Fifth Sunday of Easter—May 3, 2026 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 other end of Jesus’ earthly life, and his sojourn to…
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When we can’t tell Christ from Hermes
The Fourth Sunday of Easter—April 26, 2026 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. While early Christians were sometimes persecuted, it was far…
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Learning a new way to see
The Third Sunday of Easter—April 19, 2026 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 national media, was portrayed both as an empty space and…
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Alive, with scars to prove it
The Second Sunday of Easter, Year A—April 11, 2026 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 out from the prior week or six. Even more…
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I mean, Jesus was a day late, too!
The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A—March 22, 2026 The weekend got away from me; I’m posting this a day late. (Sound familiar, though?) I have a beautifully creepy song for you to listen to while you read this—or, better yet, to close your eyes and listen to. It’s based…
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The Lord does not see as mortals see
The Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year A—March 15, 2026 The story of David’s anointing by Samuel always amuses me. God tells Samuel not to look on the outward appearance of Jesse’s sons, because that’s not a factor in who God chooses. Unlike human beings, God isn’t distracted by looks, but…
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God, I’m thirsty
The Third Sunday in Lent, Year A—March 8, 2026 I hate Lent. …Stick with me, though. At least in the Episcopal Church, we do so much chest-beating—perhaps not literally, but if you pay attention to the words we’re praying, saying, and singing, you should see it. The season doubles down…
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Acting on Faith
The Second Sunday in Lent—March 1, 2026 Today’s readings point us back to Israel’s history, hopefully reminding us that Christianity descends from Israelite faith, but also requires a reinterpretation of that tradition for Gentile believers in Jesus. But these readings can remind us of a feature of that tradition we…
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