Wednesday, February 7, 2018
2 Kings 2:1-12 Once, long ago—3000 years ago, actually– there was a boy out plowing in the field with 24 oxen, plodding along side by side in 12 sets of two. This was the boy’s life—staring at the butts of oxen all day, trying not to slip in their poop,...
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Mark 1:29-39 This week’s gospel is the rather straightforward story of the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law. The story is that after Jesus and his newly-recruited followers went to shul and cast out a demon they repaired to Peter’s house in Capernaum...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Psalm 84 or 24:7-10; Malachi 3:1-4; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40 I think what I love most about the story of the Feast of the Presentation is the sheer serendipity of the story, superimposed on the…well…odd-ness of the cast of characters. If we...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
The Feast Day of St. Bridgit of Kildare Mark 6:25-33 I was reading the Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer the other day, looking for a succinct way of talking about Christian mission, and I came across the definition of sin (pg 848). Q. What is sin? A. Sin is...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
In the beginning, at the very beginning, on page one God separates the day from the night, and there was evening and there was morning, a day never to be remembered by a living soul, except for the One brooding over the deep waters. It was a day without history or...
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Mark 1:21-28 In Washington DC there is an old fire escape which made a brief appearance in “The Exorcist.” When I was an intern on the hill a bunch of us went up there one night and then one-by-one clambered down the thing. It’s lucky one of us didn’t break...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
The Conversion of St. Paul Acts 26:9-21 As I was reading those portions of the book of Acts assigned for today’s commemoration of Saint Paul’s conversion, the line that stood out was in the account of Paul pleading his case with King Agrippa while at the...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
On the surface, this coming Sunday’s New Testament readings, from 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 and Mark 1:21-28, seem not to have much in common. But they actually touch on a similar theme. First, the 1 Corinthians passage. Paul writes this letter to the Corinthians that...
