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Some thoughts on grieving by Sasha Adkins
20 March 2011
The Second Sunday in Lent
Our culture tends to reward stoicism and enable a collective psychic numbing. As people of faith, I believe we have a place in sanctifying mourning and creating ritual around it. Many of the most moving passages from the Bible are laments (such as David mourning his son Absalom, David mourning Saul and Jonathan, Job bewailing his misery, Rachel weeping for her children murdered by Herod, and the Israelites in exile grieving for Zion). Though some Christians argue that if we only had enough faith, we’d trust God’s plan for us and not feel sad, Jesus himself wept at the grave of his friend, Lazarus before he called him back from the dead. Mary Magdalene, the only mourner left at Christ’s tomb, was the first to see him risen. Grieving appears to be a necessary and liminal space to move through between death and resurrection.
“It is written…” by Marjory Bankson
13 March 2011
The First Sunday in Lent
Why doesn’t Lent include the six Sundays before Easter? Because in the ancient church calendar, Sabbath always celebrates the resurrection. Even if Lent was traditionally a time of penance and sacrifice, Sundays remind us that Jesus’ crucifixion is not the end of the story. “From dust he was made, and to dust he returned.” God’s creation story continues in and through the Risen Christ, among us here and now. So, on this first Sunday of Lent, we read the story in Matthew of how the Spirit led Jesus into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. That tells us that this forty-day period has a holy purpose. There’s something important about this contest between Jesus and Satan. Matthew’s saying “Listen up!”
“Epiphanies and Foolish Hope” by Peter Bankson
6 March 2011
Transfiguration
Thinking about this in a season of “foolish hope” has led me to three ideas I want to explore this morning:
- The Gospel lesson for this week offers us a big Epiphany and some ideas about how to respond:fear not, but keep praying.
- Most epiphanies are small enough to overlook or treat like problems to be solved rather than mysteries to be loved.
- Receiving an epiphany may take some time, and Lent is a fine time to start.
“The Lilies of the Field: Creating an Elder-Friendly Community” by Jacqie Wallen
27 February 2011
8th Sunday of Epiphany
Call me a Marxist, but I have always loved Karl Marx’s slogan: “From each according to his ability and to each according to his need”. Or, to update it: “From each according to his or her ability and to each according to his or her need” (You can call me a Marxist but I for heaven’s sake, don’t call me politically incorrect!) Marx’s slogan seems to me to be a good basis for a just and merciful society.
“We’re in it Together” by Kate Cudlipp
20 February 2011
7th Sunday after Epiphany
We’ve been reading in the reflection paragraph for the last eight weeks, “In terms of the world’s sanity, Jesus is crazy as a coot, and anybody who thinks we can follow him without being a little crazy too is laboring less under a cross than under a delusion.”