Posted in Covenant, Gospels, Lectionary, Lent on March 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Our journey through the desert becomes one of new birth, the discovery of new life where no life existed before, the hope that comes from putting the past behind us so that we are free to enter into a new life of water and the spirit.
No matter how bleak things may look, the Lord promises [...]
Posted in Preaching, Prophets, Social Justice on March 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.” This struck me anew listening to Bono’s acceptance speech at the NAACP awards at the beginning of March. All over the Internet, the response has been one word: Wow!
What he said should not come as news to any of us [...]
Posted in Covenant, Exodus, Old Testament on March 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My friend Carol and her sister used to refer to their cantankerous mother as YM or “your mother.” I thought of this today when I was reading the passage from Exodus (32:7-14) where God and Moses are discussing the Israelites and both refer to them as your people. God wants Moses to take responsibility [...]
Posted in Catholic Identity, Lent on March 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Watching The Colbert Report tonight, I found myself wondering whether other people have noticed the ongoing subtext of Lent and the Americone Dream. And in fact I discovered a nice compendium of accounts of Stephen’s Catholic identity here. And this. I’ve just loved the way he’s so typically understated but determined about it. Periodically over [...]
Posted in Gospels, Lent on March 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Today’s Gospel tells the familiar story of the Prodigal Son. Most of us can identify on some level with this rebellious younger son who loses himself in pleasure and adventure. And we also know what it’s like to come to our senses and realize that somewhere we’ve taken a wrong turn.
Our wandering in the desert [...]
Posted in Covenant, Lent on March 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Moses is fleeing from his past in Egypt when he finds himself not only in the desert but near the mountain of God and there he discovers his future. His flock will no longer be his father-in-law’s sheep but the people of the God of his fathers. He is called from security into the unknown.
Once [...]
Posted in Covenant, Lent, Transfiguration on March 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Here in the Ohio Valley, spring starts to tease a winter-weary people around the beginning of March–days in the 50s, sunshine, daffodils up a few inches in the garden. We had some days like that last week and then the winds began to blow, the temperatures plummeted into the 20s again and we’re back to [...]
