Jesus, you entered the Temple and disrupted business as usual because once you’d come there was no returning to “the usual.” Jesus, you entered the Temple and overturned tables because nothing could remain untouched by the grace you embodied. Jesus, you entered the Temple and demanded an...
Tornado Damage &...
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Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who suffered from the tornadoes a week ago, and to all those who are working tirelessly to bring them some measure of relief. To learn more, to help, and to donate, you can go to the websites of the The Red Cross and Lutheran Disaster Response. And...
16. Mark 14:43-46
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Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived; and with him there was a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; arrest him and lead him...
Every Riven Thing – A Poem for Friday
posted by DJL
Given this Sunday’s Gospel reading from John 2, where Jesus makes manifest that God will no longer be contained in the Temple but is now, in Jesus, on the loose, I thought Christian Wiman’s poem Every Riven Thing was appropriate. But this isn’t simply a tribute to the God present in nature; it is testimony to the God who appears in brokeness. As Wiman says in an interview with Radio Open Source: Riven means broken, it means shattered or wounded or unhealed, and I think that notion is very important to me and my notion of God and of religion: that we are broken creatures, very broken creatures. And I don’t think of God as...
15. Mark 14:37-42
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He came and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep awake one hour? Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” And again he went away and prayed, saying the same...