Apr 5, 2024 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, Uncategorized, World
Some years ago, there was a story making the rounds about a man named Robert Liebowitz. A 60 -year-old single father of five, he had been struggling with kidney disease since he was 10 years old. Eventually he was told that he would need dialysis three times a week to...
Mar 22, 2024 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
Essay on Adam By Robert Bringhurst There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam. The first, that he fell, is too...
Mar 8, 2024 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
We are deep in the heart of Lent, and while this Sunday is often referred to as “refreshment Sunday,” there is still a way to go before Easter arrives. Even with the Sunday “Little Easter” reprieves from Lent, and even with the hopeful signs of longer days and warmer...
Feb 23, 2024 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
I just finished reading Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey. While I have heard that, among purists, this translation is controversial, for me the colloquialisms and interjection of modern idiom made it really engaging and fun to read. Just as interesting as the...
Feb 8, 2024 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
The author Octavia Butler just keeps surfacing. Reading her dystopian novel Parable of the Sower in our Holy Apostles summer book group a couple of years ago must have raised our collective awareness of Butler and her work, because ever since then it seems like she is...
