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Forty days, or forty years, in a short hand way of the Bible telling us that something very significant is happening that brings about a...

The Ash Wednesday service is a very simple and ancient one. It is both sober and sensual as we smell the smoke, and receive the gritty...

The transfiguration is a movable feast in the church calendar. It can be celebrated the last Sunday before Lent, or the second Sunday of...

The nearness of the kingdom of God is made known by teaching with authority, healing on the Sabbath, eating with friends and family, and...

The themes of knowledge, power, authority, wisdom and love, do seem to run through our RCL readings this week (Deuteronomy 18:15-20,...

Most of us, like Jonah, would prefer to be sent to Tarshish than to Nineveh. The story of the call of Jonah is in many ways the grumpy...

To know and be known is one of the deepest human longings. I believe it is one of the ways in which we bear the divine spark – this...

Things that were once separate – creation and the creator, human and divine, flesh and spirit – are being declared Beloved and...

The celebration of Epiphany (RCL readings for January 6th or closest Sunday, Matthew 2:1-12) reminds us that the coming of the light into...

Only a few days after Christmas and already we are being asked to unwrap what the birth of this both ordinary and unique baby means. In...

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us full of grace. And because of this everything is different. Because God became flesh, became...

At last – stories that sound like Christmas! Stories with angels, babies announced, mysterious messages, the humble "Yes" – the elements...