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Tag: community

  • A lesson in love – from José Sabogal and Marilynne Robinson #presence/absence

    I spent a couple of hours at the Musée des Beaux-Arts today, taking in the exhibit: Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon. The exhibit traces a vast history of art and culture within Peru, with many astonishing and beautiful pieces. One that struck me was from the indigenismo movement – a painting entitled…

  • honest engagement and the reality of risk #beingmissional

    It goes without saying that we like to be in control – we as individuals want to be in control – and we as the church want to be in control. But being faithful to Christ will often mean relinquishing control. After all, the Spirit blows where it will, and the Lord we serve bears…

  • down by the riverside – the river as a boundary

    In so many places around the earth, rivers are also boundaries. Rivers, of course, are natural geographic formations that are often difficult for people to cross or to get around. And so in the history of peoples and communities and nations, rivers have inevitably become boundaries that define those peoples and relations between them.  So…

  • gospel and the gazette: postsecret

    I suspect that many or most of us here this morning have never heard of PostSecret. PostSecret had its beginning in 2005 and was created by a man by the name of Frank Warren. Back in January of 2005, Frank Warren created this project by sending 3,000 self-addressed stamped postcards to people – and he…

  • that you may be healed…

    In the town of Capernaum lives a man who suffers from what we would call paraplegia. He is paralyzed from the waste down – unable to use his legs. He is utterly dependent on those who live around him – dependent on them to provide food and drink, to put a roof over his head…

  • I Believe in the Holy Spirit

    A sermon preached today, in a continuing series on the Apostles’ Creed. _______________________________ This morning as we come back again to the Apostles’ Creed, we turn to the third and final section of the Creed. Already we have thought through “I believe in God the Father.” We have considered “I believe in Jesus Christ, his…

  • Creed and Community

    A sermon preached today in advance of a sermon series on the Apostles’ Creed – to begin next week. _________________________________ Community.   It’s a word you can’t escape today, isn’t it, both in the church and in wider society.   Everywhere you turn – whether in the world of politics, in the media, in the…