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Soil and soul: Our Protestant agrarian past
Christians didn’t baptize Aldo Leopold’s land ethic after the fact. They got there years before his work.
The Canaanite Woman, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (15th-century Book of Hours)
Art selection and commentary by Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons
July 19, Ordinary 16B: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
“Many were coming and going, and they had no leisure, even to eat.” I think of the many lunches spent at my computer with a sandwich.
Sacred inwardness: Why secularism has no meaning
Perhaps the real lack of faith in modern society comes down to a lack of reverence for the people around us.
Ordinary #11B (Mark 4:26-34)
I have come to realize how mysterious a thing a seed is.
Ordinary #11B (Mark 4:26-34)
I have come to realize how mysterious a thing a seed is.
The path of forgiveness
Two recent books testify to the difficult but hopeful work of forgiving in the most trying circumstances.
Mustard seeds
To be a follower of the one who promised that the kingdom of God is like a mustard seed is to expect a blessed in-breaking of peace.
Mustard seeds
To be a follower of the one who promised that the kingdom of God is like a mustard seed is to expect a blessed in-breaking of peace.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 | Ash Wednesday: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21; 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
As we contemplate mortality and finitude, I wonder if we could treasure washing the dishes.
Sunday, February 15, 2015 | Transfiguration Sunday: Mark 9:2-9
Let’s build shrines, Peter says. He doesn’t know how to respond to a mystical mountaintop experience, and he’s afraid.
Jesus Was a Migrant, by Deirdre Cornell, and Border Patrol Nation, by Todd Miller
Two new books on immigration complement each other well. And where Todd Miller’s falls short, Deirdre Cornell’s shines most brightly.
reviewed by L. Elaine Hall
Reading the Parable of the Great Banquet in prison
"Why you even invite us to any of this," asked Richard, "if you’re just gonna humiliate us and throw us out?"
by Chris Hoke
Sunday, January 11, 2015: Mark 1:4-11
I eschew the danger of the river, but I know that it is where God leads me.
by Diane Roth
Setting off alarms
I know of a congregation that, for many years, provided a “living nativity pageant” in its community. The church is in the center of town and has an expansive front lawn. On a certain December Sunday afternoon each year, it would fill that lawn with live sheep and goats and donkeys, costumed shepherds and wise men, a gaggle of angels, an innkeeper, a manger, and, of course, the holy family.
Epiphany of the Lord: Matthew 2:1-12
The Magi's alien exoticism is an intrinsic part of Matthew's story.
God among the imperfect: The holy family didn't meet the ideal either
I don’t know what a perfect first-century family looked like, but I’m certain that Joseph and Mary didn’t qualify.
Adoration of the Magi, by Gentile da Fabriano (ca. 1423)
Art selection and commentary by Mikeal C. Parsons and Heidi J. Hornik.