Tag: people
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Concern
Our little group of worshipers was about half its usual size yesterday morning. Our local hospital’s COVID wing is full and the county is back “in the red,” and we are an older bunch of folks (Presby-terians, no coincidence), and blessed with lots of underlying conditions, so people exercising additional caution is part of that.…
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Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
One of those extraordinary ordinary days at church. A beautiful, clear, sunny day in late fall. The sun hitting that stained glass window at just the right angle to cast a rose-colored shadow on the wall across from the choir loft. I’ve never seen that before. Some people we’d expected to see weren’t there [“You…
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Third Sunday of Easter
The day-to-day reality of participating in church could give you emotional and cognitive whiplash, if you let it. Like this morning: we spent an hour or so talking about the kind of deep theological topics that people debate in seminary and in theology texts – justification by faith, redemption, atonement, grace, which faith is it,…
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Second Sunday of Easter
The Preacher says there’s a time for everything. You know: “A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance,” etc. etc. Ecclesiastes 3. “Turn turn turn.” A time to meet, and a time to say good-bye. We’re adults, we understand, we do. We understand that people…
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Third Sunday in Advent
The question of the day was whether we could imagine ourselves, just being with one another, as … having something to do with love. It’s almost cliché these days to say things like “Christmas … it’s about presence, not presents.” But what if we take that “presence” idea seriously, recognize that being there with another…
Matters of Interpretation 