Month: July 2016
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18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today was the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, and the sermon treated some themes in the gospel of the day, Luke 12:13-21. The discussion of the text(s) and the sermon are available, for those interested,
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Wondering about feeling good
How important is it to “feel good”? I’m taking a class online which clearly has as one of its important purposes teaching us how to cultivate a positive, calm, serene, happy feeling as we go through life. I’m all for that. But from time to time I wonder whether it’s the main thing I need […]
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What do we create?
Found the beautiful prayer/poem “A Simple Choice” at Sacredise while looking for liturgical resources for the 13th Sunday in ordinary time. Do we create need … or do we create plenty? Still working on a better answer to that one. Read it here.
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Lessons from “the Islam group”
Our community study group on Islam wound up its reading and discussion of Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, last night. We started with around 50 people (that’s a long story – maybe another time), and have ended up with about 10 or 15 stalwarts, what with jobs and […]
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Exegetical Exercise Luke 12 13-21
Our pastor became a first-time grandfather on Sunday afternoon. Great news! It means that he’s out of town celebrating his granddaughter and helping her feel like the new world is a loving place and supporting his first-time-grandmother wife and first-time-mother daughter and first-time-father son-in-law and so on. For me, it means that I’m knee deep […]
Matters of Interpretation 