Tag: eucharist
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Utopianism
Some people treat “utopian” as a term of abuse. Not me. I don’t go along with the foes of art who act like totalitarianism is just around the corner whenever someone starts pointing out that since we ourselves have made our worlds into hells then we could unmake them and remake them, kinder and better.…
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Third Sunday of Easter
Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread. Luke 24:35
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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This morning I learned how to use the new copier to make large print bulletins on 11×17 paper from regular print bulletins on 11×14 paper, printed on both sides, not two pages on top of each other, facing the same direction and not with one of the pages upside down. As anticipated, it was more…
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On Being Christian
Williams, Rowan. Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] This is an amazing and wonderful book. Being Christian is simple and direct, clear and lovely, and immediately recognizable as true – as something we will have already known for a long time, if…
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Study Notes – Mark 14 17-24
We are studying Mark 14:17-24 and Hebrews 8 for Sunday, June 2. Here are my very brief notes on the Mark text, which includes Jesus’ remarks to his twelve disciples at the last supper; notes for Hebrews 8:6-12 are here. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: The Gospel of Mark is thought to be the earliest of all…