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Reflecting on the Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King, Jr. recounts driving through the South and looking at the many churches, “Over and over I have found myself asking: ‘What kind of people worship here? Who is their God?’” Perhaps now is the time to ask this of ourselves; as we board up our churches that we haven’t been in for weeks, as we worry about the loss or destruction of our churches’ property in the midst of these riots, let us ask ourselves, “Who are we who worship in these places? Who is the God we worship, and what does that God ask of us?”

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Let’s talk about waiting

The word “Pentecost” literally means “50th,” as in the 50th day following the Easter vigil. It may seem strange to name one of our high holy days in this way. Why have we been counting days since Jesus’ Resurrection? Has the Resurrection inaugurated something we’re supposed to wait for? 

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Good Friday, 2019

Mary bore Christ, not just through pain of pregnancy and the challenges of raising a child, but in the fullness of motherhood - in the great anguish of losing her child. 

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A sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent

Most of us live with a certain amount of anxiety. Sometimes it’s because the world is a terrifying place, and some of the humans who live here with us seem capable of great evil. Thinking of New Zealand this week, or a synagogue in Pittsburg and a school in Parkville, Florida just a year ago, it’s hard to imagine not being worried.

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