Year A Isaiah 7:10-16 Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 Romans 1:1-7 Matthew 1:18-25May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Presbyterian minister T. Denise Anderson writes that in today’s passage from Isaiah… God tells King Ahaz to ask for a sign… Ahaz rules the southern kingdom of Judah… which includes Jerusalem… King Pekah of the northern kingdom...
Year A Isaiah 35:1-10 Canticle 15 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… When there’s going to be a space launch… like Thursday’s Falcon 9 rocket… which deployed an array of low-Earth orbit satellites… there are literally hundreds… if not thousands of variables which must be seamlessly integrated and precisely...
Year A Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… John the Baptist wears symbolic clothing and eats symbolic food… both of which suggest people and processes in Israel’s past… both of which explore the dynamics of repentance… John’s clothing is reminiscent of Elijah’s… in a story...
In March 1616, the Catholic Church issued a prohibition against the Copernican theory, which claimed that the Earth was not at the center of the universe (geocentric), but that it rotated around the Sun (heliocentric). This led to the Inquisition and Condemnation of Galileo Galilei (in 1633) as a suspected heretic for his subsequent astronomical observations (such...
Year A Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… There’s a story… called What is the World Like?… in it… God and a man are walking down the road… the man asks God… What is the world like?… God replies… I can’t talk when I’m thirsty… if...