Luke 6:20-31 I have spent a good part of my life living near cemeteries, so from the time I was young it has been my habit to walk through those sacred places, pausing to wonder at the stories of those whose names and years are engraved in stone there. Nowadays when I walk it is …
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All Saints Sunday: Standing Still in the Mystery
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 …
Blessed Are You Who Are Poor…
Luke 6:20-31 It had been a busy morning. I had been out of the office far too much in the last few weeks and so it is that I found myself with the phone pressed to my ear making belated birthday calls. For an hour and a half. I was about an hour and fifteen …
Blessed Are…
Luke 6:20-31 I know something of blessings and blessedness and after the last year I know some things I didn’t know before. Or at least I am more deeply aware of some things I never thought about enough before. Because you see last September we began a Year of Blessings at the congregation I now …