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Category Archives: Theology
The Church and Ecology — Diana Butler Bass
Historian and writer Diana Butler Bass reflects on a church on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay, and the implications of its future in this time of climate crisis: As I have ruminated on Tangier Island, I realize that far … Continue reading
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“What is it we cannot see” Richard Rohr daily meditation for June 2, 2022
This Unveiling This isthe pressing questionof every age: What is it that we cannot see? For life is hiddenness,as is God,and we have been giventhe gift of searching. The unseen works on us, always. Waves pulsing through our flesh, … Continue reading
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God is Love (I John 4:8 & I John 4:16)
The profundity of this declaration and others like it in the Gospel according to John have been growing on me since my retreat in August. There the retreat master urged us to see God’s love as enfolding us and God … Continue reading
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PostDoom spirituality www.Postdoom.com.
Richard Rohr references the work of Michael Dowd and Ivey Cone on moving beyond the doom I feel when I reflect on where we are with our planet today. : “A foreboding sense of climate chaos, societal breakdown, and economic … Continue reading
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10th Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 13; Year B
It is interesting how this Sunday’s readings come together: 2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:13a with Psalm 51: 1-13; Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15 with Psalm 78:23-29; Ephesians 4:1-16 and John 6:24-35 The story of God judging David (through Nathan) for his murder … Continue reading
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The beheading of John the Baptist–Mark 6: 14-29
The Gospel passage for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost in Year B is Mark’s rather gory story of John’s beheading at the request of Herod’s wife via Herodias, his daughter. (The identities of Herod, Herodias [the mother] and Herodias [the … Continue reading
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The madness of religious prophets -Mark 3: 20-21
The crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”Jesus’ family tried to … Continue reading
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Lent & the Catechumenate
It may seem strange to be focussing on Lent during Eastertide but insights come when they will. My brother-in-law and I oftentimes discuss “matters religious” when we get together. He is a conservative Catholic for whom doctrine and dogma are … Continue reading
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Greeks seeking Jesus: John 12: 20-33
Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then … Continue reading
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Poisonous Serpents (Numbers 21:4-9 & John 3: 14-21)
Confession: When I first read this Sunday’s readings, I didn’t see any connections between the Israelites’ problem with serpents and our current times. But then we had a discussion of the Gospel during “Gospel Preview” and things became clearer. (Dean … Continue reading
