Those of you who read the MailChimp email I sent on August 22nd, or who heard or read my sermon on the August 29th know that change is afoot. It began on April 15, when the Rev. Canon Val Ambrose (of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan) had a Zoom meeting with several of...
Year B Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Psalm 15 James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… There’s a passage in Deuteronomy 6:5-9… which is a fuller expression of our reading from a few minutes ago… it’s a prayer we used to recite every week at Friday...
Year B Proverbs 9:1-6Psalm 34:9-14Ephesians 5:15-20John 6:51-58 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The 1999 movie… The Matrix… is a story about a society which exists in a computer generated reality… like one of those computer games where each person has an avatar… and all of the avatars on...
Year B 1 Kings 19:4-8Psalm 34:1-8Ephesians 4:25-5:2John 6:35, 41-51 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… In today’s passage from 1 Kings… Elijah is despondent… his success on God’s behalf… the killing of Baal’s prophets in the Kidron Valley… means nothing to him now… he has escaped Jezebel’s reach and...
Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem which was first published in 1889… entitled The Ballad of East and West. Although I don’t remember it ever being read to me, I do remember from childhood the first line… it goes “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” I wonder if I...