Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18 Ephesians 1:11-23 Luke 6:20-31 For me at least, All Saints Sunday has always been more about mystery than dogma. More about the familiar strains of poetry and the strident, or haunting, or jaunty melodies than about any well reasoned theological statement or argument. “Behold a host arrayed in white…” “For all the …
Month: October 2019
Truth and Freedom
John 8:31-36 I visited at the prison this week. I had meant to go sooner, but other demands got in the way. This week a friend, a fellow pastor, was making the trip and she asked if I wanted to go as well. I did. If you have been tagging along with me for a …
Wrestling All Night… And More
Genesis 32:22-31 This ancient story still speaks, doesn’t it? I expect that is because we have all found ourselves exactly where Jacob finds himself today: wresting all night long. Only in my experience, the wrestling doesn’t usually end with the break of dawn. Or at least not the first break of dawn. And yet, by …
On Gratitude and Wholeness
Luke 17:11-19 One’s attention is naturally drawn to the Samaritan in the story before us now. At first the ten are all of a group: All stricken by the same deadly disease. All drawn together by a fate that erased the differences which had separated them before this awful diagnosis. All desperate enough to call …