Thinking of Tucson
Monday, January 17th, 2011 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Thinking of TucsonNow that the shootings in Tucson are playing themselves out in recoveries, hospital discharges, and (unfortunately) funerals and memorials, we may be tempted to close the book and move on. But that is most certainly a temptation. Why? Because what ...
Post-Christmas Pondering
Sunday, January 9th, 2011 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Post-Christmas PonderingThe liturgical Christmas season ended this year (2011) on January 9, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Lent doesn’t begin until March 9, so we have two months; but to do what? How about doing what Mary did? According ...
Holiday Returns
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Holiday ReturnsAbout 30 per cent of this year’s Christmas gifts will be returned to the store because their recipients decided they were the wrong size, the wrong color, or wrong style. From the crowds I saw making returns in the stores ...
Advent Cousins
Sunday, December 5th, 2010 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Advent CousinsCousins in preaching as well as blood, John the Baptist and Jesus shared the expectation that the Kingdom of God was quickly coming and that people needed to prepare for it. But they seemed to have had different ideas of ...
Come, Lord Jesus!
Sunday, November 28th, 2010 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Come, Lord Jesus!“Come, Lord Jesus!” That fervent prayer ends the Book of Revelation and, so, the entire Bible. The desire for Christ also animates the season of Advent, when we celebrate his coming in the past and pray that he come again ...
