Name-calling
We
typically think of name-calling as trash talk, violent speech, all harm and no
good. Often it is. In the aftermath of the midterm elections, I'm well past my
quota of derogation and defamation. But not all name-calling is violence.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
There is an ongoing debate about the angels in Andrei Rublev's icon of the Trinity, painted around 1410, and about which one represents the Son and which the Holy Spirit....
Sing!
On a Sunday when John the Baptist's call for repentance roars in our ears, we need reminders of the precedence of gift, the prevenience of grace. For John's sermonic cry to "prepare the way of the Lord" can seem all task and no gift. It calls out the Pelagian in all of us, the voluntarist who wants to build the kingdom. Careless hearing leads us to imagine that if we "make his paths straight," he will come.
Sunday, December 5, 2010: Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12
On this second Sunday of Advent, perhaps the paraments should be red rather than blue or purple....
Take and read
De La Torre writes “to assist the churchgoing layperson in understanding the complexity of the current immigration debate.” ...
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Be prepared
It's easy to read the parable of the ten virgins as a tribute to two core American values: individualism and meritocracy....