Prayers and Reflections in Season
In Always a Guest, Barbara Brown Taylor preaches good news to faith communities, seminarians, and readers in her role as guest preacher and messenger of hope.Continue reading ““Always a Guest” by Barbara Brown Taylor: Book Review”
I’m at the front of the checkout line at the local drug store, just behind the yellow line, sporting my cherry print pandemic mask. The customer standing at the counter clutches the handles of his rollator—a walker with a seat. He looks to be in his 50’s, but he might be younger. Scraggly beard and hair, a leather pouch with a shoulder strap tucked under one arm. He looks worn down.
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Continue reading “The Mysteries of Faith”The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
into an object of affirmation and negation, when in
reality they should be an object of contemplation.
A Poem for Holy Week
by Tom Robb
by
Margaret D. McGee
Tonight, we hear a love story. At the story’s end, our God and Creator is visible, real and present, at a supper table, among a circle of friends.
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Dear God, Grant me courage...Continue reading “A Prayer for Holy Week”
A Homily for Wednesday in Holy Week
by
Margaret D. McGee
The Psalm sets the tone and lets us know right up front what kind of mess we’re in. “Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire … the flood sweeps over me … shame has covered my face … I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.”
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In the Courtyard 