The mission of the wounded healer
One word and one word only best describes the attitude of the Pharisee in the parable we hear today. One word: contempt. The Pharisee had nothing but contempt for the […]
Category: Sermon
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With the inner eye
February 2nd is the feast of The Meeting of the Lord – also known as the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. But it was a meeting; a meeting between […]
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Jesus Looked
Do you ever feel lost? That your life is lacking in something important, maybe lacking meaning or purpose? You feel separated from God? Then today’s reading from the Gospel of […]
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The Language that Remains
In a 1964 interview Hannah Arendt: “I realized… If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, […]
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Do the things undone
A very fine film came out last year which very few people saw, and even the critics took little notice of it – and those critics who did see it […]
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From Church of Aaron to Church of Moses
“The priest against the prophet, the church of the world against the church of faith, the church of Aaron against the church of Moses—this eternal conflict in the church of […]
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I Live Here
A group of men visited a remote monastery. They were given time to visit with a venerable holy monk, who answered all their questions. Finally one of the visitors spoke […]
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The Word that leaped
The Wisdom of Solomon is a book you won’t find in most English-language Bibles. But you will find it if you have a Bible with the so-called Deuterocanonical Books. These […]
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Words? Or the Word?
Many of us spend a lifetime, or half a lifetime, thinking that life’s truths lie out there, elsewhere, away from home – far from where we are. But then, some […]