Holy Week VI – Saturday Six Word Stories*  in silence waiting for new life  ++++++++++++ *During Holy Week the posts each day are six word stories. Today’s story is taken from the silence of the biblical witness to the story we are…
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Holy Week V – Friday Six Word Stories* Cohen: O longing of the branches ++++++++++++ *During Holy Week the posts will be six word stories. Today’s story is taken from Leonard Cohen’s newly released “Old Ideas” album. The song is “Come Healing.”…
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Holy Week IV – Thursday Six Word Stories* Maundy (new commandment) wash, serve, love ++++++++++++ *During Holy Week the posts will be six word stories. Today’s story is taken from the gospel reading: John 13:1-17, 31b-35
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Holy Week III – Wednesday Six Word Stories* surrounded by a cloud of witnesses ++++++++++++ *During Holy Week the posts will be six word stories. Today’s story is taken from the epistle reading: Hebrews 12:1-3.
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Holy Week II – Tuesday Six Word Stories* * During Holy Week the posts will be six word stories. Today’s story is taken from the lectionary gospel text: John 12:20-36.
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Holy Week I – Monday Six Word Stories* ______________________ * During Holy Week the posts will be six word stories.
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Keeping Watch in Silence This is the song that has been playing in my mind all day: Thistle and Weeds by Mumford and Sons. It begins in despair. The images of the homegrown video are evocative in their own way,…
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Show and Tell For the last six weeks, since Ash Wednesday, I’ve been slowly working out at the far reaches of my own competence, for the sake of learning something new. For the sake of trying a new practice and…
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Passion with feeling with purpose with all the forces of life and death +++++ how do we practice passion faithfully? sounds like a contradiction faithfulness has become staid, drab, a march to boredom, lifeless while passion sounds like a crowd…
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Silence
is the word
for this day
between
Good Friday
and
Easter Sunday
And so I will keep it.
Holy Week I
Holy Week. As I removed my shoes tonight and pressed my feet to the cold tiles in the sanctuary I was taken back. . . . In my final year of seminary I preached to my peers and friends at Southern Seminary. It was the first (and I suppose the only) time I preached in my seminary community (outside of preaching class anyway). It was Maundy Thursday in 1993. It was something of a renegade service.
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Switchfoot. Standing here on the brink of Holy Week, I’m glad to be headed in to hear the music of Switchfoot in a live concert in Cincinnati, Ohio at The Underground. Since early November when Switchfoot released their newest album, Hello Hurricane, I’ve been playing it almost daily.
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