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Christmas | Sicut Locutus Est
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Prayers, Sermons and Marginal Notes. The One who makes rich is made poor, taking on the poverty of flesh, that I may gain the riches of divinity. The One who is full is made empty, devoid a while of glory, that I may share that glory fully. What is this wealth of goodness? What is this mystery that surrounds me? It’s an ancient theological question: Why did God become one of us? In this way of imagining, what we wait for in Advent is not someone to fix us but someone to reveal us to ourselves. The gi...
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The Re-Enchantment Project | Tess Ward
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Skip to primary content. The Celtic Wheel of the Year. 9 February, 2014. In my talk I talked about transformation and needing to meet our shadow in order to be transformed into a new and more integrated place. I invited the Christians to speak this lament with me:. O Divine One, Source of all,. Who gives birth to diversity beyond our imagining. We have failed to see your embodied presence. Shining at the heart of all things. And so divided matter from spirit. We have divided men from women,. 11 thoughts ...
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September – Season of the new | Tess Ward
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Skip to primary content. The Celtic Wheel of the Year. September – Season of the new. 3 September, 2013. I have a new term of emptiness the house certainly. In this particular house, I have always had a Hayley Mills quote up in my writing shed which looks onto the back of the house:. So often I would be outside in the evening and I would look back at the house with all its lights on and think: Therein is all the life I take for granted. The shouting, the laughter, the ‘God are you still up? T was a day i...
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There’s a Woman in the Pulpit | RevGalBlogPals
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A supportive community for clergywomen since 2005. There’s a Woman in the Pulpit. RevGalBlogPals is proud to announce the publication of. There’s a Woman in the Pulpit: Christian Clergywomen Share Their Hard Days, Holy Moments and the Healing Power of Humor. And Barnes and Noble. Click here to download a discussion guide for your book group or adult class. Find links to our #WomaninthePulpit blog tour here. From the Foreword by Rev. Carol Howard Merritt. 8230;What if a church member receives a fatal prog...
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Baptism | Sicut Locutus Est
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Prayers, Sermons and Marginal Notes. The One Down God: Sermon for the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus. And sure enough, in Matthew’s version of the baptism story, we get a big revelation about who Jesus is. It comes right after Jesus wades out of the Jordan. The heavens open, the Spirit alights, and a voice declares, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight.’. Jesus presents himself for baptism, but John doesn’t seem pleased. He doesn’t say, Good morning! Jesus from being baptized. Me? They symboliz...
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So Weird: Meditation for 4th Advent/Christmas Sunday | Sicut Locutus Est
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Prayers, Sermons and Marginal Notes. So Weird: Meditation for 4th Advent/Christmas Sunday. In our house, when I was growing up, the baby Jesus didn’t appear in the manger until after we got back from Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. We were strict constructionists no carols in Advent, and no baby in the cradle ‘till the night he was born. When you have little kids in the house and you’ve put the crèche on a low table, a purple Godzilla’s not the weirdest thing that’s likely to show up to adore the Child.
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Sermons | Sicut Locutus Est
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Prayers, Sermons and Marginal Notes. Once in a Garden: Meditation for Earth Day/Creation Sunday. The tree of Life, allegory with birds perched on branches. Mosaic pavement; 4th century CE. The first gift God gave humans was to make us from clay, to give us kinship with dirt. God named the first earthling. Meaning ‘human,’ from the root word,. The second gift God gave humans was breath, kinship with God, a sharing in God’s own life. The. Which is one reason God gives. And that was the way it was, once in ...
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Hard Times and Tragedies | Sicut Locutus Est
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Prayers, Sermons and Marginal Notes. Category Archives: Hard Times and Tragedies. In the Aftermath of Horror…. Rowan Williams, ‘Postmodern Theology and the Judgment of the World’, in. Postmodern Theology: Christian Faith in a Pluralist World,. Ed Frederic B. Burnham, 106 07. And here is the reflection from 2005:. When I heard the. And why would one ask anything of a God who stood by and did nothing while it unfolded? My ‘good’ theology failed me. It didn’t work to affirm that God isn’t responsible wh...
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Critters in the Gospels | Sicut Locutus Est
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Prayers, Sermons and Marginal Notes. Category Archives: Critters in the Gospels. Which One of You, Having a Cow…? She got here the way. We all do, tripped up by fate,. Or lured by the promise of more;. The same way we all do,. Through a hole in a fence. She needed to squeeze through. Because the grass was greener. On the other side;. Or because so many grackles. Suddenly rose in a loud. Shudder of wings and caws. From that irresistible ditch. She got here the way we all do,. Tripped up, led on, curious,.
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Lent and Holy Week | Sicut Locutus Est
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Prayers, Sermons and Marginal Notes. Category Archives: Lent and Holy Week. 8220;You will not turn away, O God, from a broken and contrite heart. The psalmist says that God. Spurn a contrite heart, but he might just as truthfully say that God. Turn from such a heart. There’s something about a heart that’s been shattered, opened, rendered contrite and pliable by failure, that God cannot resist. The joyous life the penitent psalmist prays for. It’s the life I pray for too. March 17, 2016. Whenever I’m herd...
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