The Shepherdess Writes
Lent 1B Genesis 9:8-17 Our first reading today from the Old Testament is the closing scene of one of the most widely recognized stories from the bible. The flood, the big boat, the animals two by two, the kindly looking old man with the long white beard are all familiar set pieces in this story. [...]
Baptism of Our Lord Year B, Mark 1:7-11 Imagine the scene from today’s Gospel reading. Way out in the middle of no where. Way out in the wilderness, there is a man, a crazy passionate man, dressed in rough clothing made out of animal hair and leather. A wild rough looking man who has been [...]
Pentecost 18A Matthew 22:15-22 One of the few evenings I spent as an on call chaplain at the hospital in Columbia, SC, I received a page to go to the psychiatric ward at around 11pm. Honestly, I liked going to the psychiatric ward. The people there never bothered to sugar coat what they were thinking [...]
This past Sunday, while we were passing the peace, the man who was our lector for the day grabbed me and said “There’s no Old Testament reading in the bulletin!” Oh how nice it was that someone in the congregation actually cared about the fact that there was no Old Testament reading! Oh how nice [...]
Lately, I’ve heard a lot of people say, “I’m spiritual but not religious.” This phrase eats away at me. For a long time I could not figure out what “spirit” they were saying they were a part of. Did that make them spiritualists? That’s an old-fashioned phrase for people who engage in the occult. But [...]
February 25, 2012
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