Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year 4, NL)
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Poetry that bids us welcome
How is it that the poems of a 17th-century aristocrat still resonate with us?
August 23, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time: John 6:56-69
In our Gospel text, some of Jesus’ disciples find his teaching hard. Eating his body? Drinking his blood? I didn’t sign up for this. Couldn’t I just pray for you?
Why I still love the church
I often think I hear colleagues asking, “How could we attract nuns to our church?” Actually they’re talking about “the nones,” of course. One of the clearest findings of the Pew Forum’s new religious landscape study is that fewer and fewer people have any religious affiliation at all. Catholics and mainline Protestants show the biggest drop.
I feel pretty conflicted about all of this.
Pickles: A history
Social microhistories can capture big ideas. I’d like to write one on pickles, which are as fundamental to civilization as anything in Chesterton’s pockets.
Who is communion for? The debate over the open table
Offering the elements to the unbaptized can be seen as a development and not a revolution, but it is a significant change. Is it a good one?
Better, not more
The lectionary has focused our attention on bread for a very long time. One might think that five barley loaves transformed into a feast plus baskets full of leftovers would be news enough, but Jesus goes on to talk about the bread for another 36 verses. He would be a dream interview for today's 24-hour news shows, with their incessant need for commentary on the latest attention-grabbing headline.
By Audrey West
Sunday, August 19, 2012: John 6:51-58
Perhaps we should not be too hard on the people who ate their fill on the mountain and chased Jesus down on the other side.
by Audrey West
Eating in ignorance
Reconciliation requires relocation. To see the effects of our food choices, we have to get close to the land.
Foodie nation
Late in life, my mother confessed that she never enjoyed cooking. "But," she said, "I did take satisfaction in serving simple meals to my family." Well, there's no such thing as a simple meal anymore.
An insistent invitation: John 6:51-58
Which would you rather do, contemplate belief or consume the flesh and blood of Jesus?
Literalism that kills
It made a lot of sense for Jesus to use the metaphor of animal sacrifice—at least, it did in the first century.