Tag: parenting
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Fireworks
“Remember, remember the fifth of November” is the slogan for Guy Fawkes Day, which is today. It commemorates the time the Gunpowder Plot was foiled, and the King and Parliament were saved from being blown up. Guy Fawkes thought that would have been a good idea, apparently, but less explosive heads prevailed. So, of course,…
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How Low Can God Go?
When my daughter was little, I thought I had hit on a way to explain why we could not see God. Because of course she wanted to see God. She wanted to see everything. “God is too big to see.” The way the air is too big to see. God is everywhere. God is everywhere?…
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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The text today continues the exploration of God’s call in the book of Judges, with the call of Samson – although the call is more properly, as we’ll see, the call of Samson’s mother. Scripture doesn’t tell us her name, but we know she must have had one, and according to Jewish tradition it was…
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On Saying “Yes” to the Dress
Now that Christmas is over and we are back in town from visiting relatives and shopping with Christmas money, it turns out it is time to shop for prom. This is because waiting till the second or third week of January for an occasion that occurs in the spring guarantees that the early birds have…
Matters of Interpretation 