Showing posts with label Advent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advent. Show all posts
Monday, December 14, 2020

Ruth Krall, A Meditation: The Third Sunday in Advent

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The photo is by Hans Vivek, who has generously made it available for online sharing at Unsplash . Ruth Krall has written a beautiful sermon ...
Monday, November 23, 2020

An Advent Sermon from Ruth Krall on First Sunday of Advent

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The photo is by Hans Vivek, who has generously made it available for online sharing at Unsplash . It's my privilege today to share with ...
Friday, December 27, 2019

"The Immigrant Children…Cannot Be Erased by Shopping Excursions": An Advent Sermon by Wendell Griffen

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I'm happy to be able to share with readers a sermon I heard my friend Reverend Wendell Griffen deliver this past Sunday at New Mi...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Death of 7-Year-Old Girl in U.S. Custody, a Family Funeral, and the Inexplicable Cruelty of Right-Wing U.S. Catholicism: An Advent Conundrum

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Sometimes I follow threads in Catholic discussions on Twitter down rabbit holes. I know I shouldn't do this, because the holes inev...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

Putting Christ Back Into Christmas: The Death of Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin

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Sunday, December 2, 2018

I Have a Dream: As Pope Francis Announces that Gay Men Shouldn't Enter Priesthood, as Advent Begins — "Leave the LGBTQ Community the Hell Alone"

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This is a meditation for the first Sunday of Advent. It has specific reference to what Pope Francis said (or is said to have said: let th...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Had One of My Church Dreams Last Night: An Advent Meditation

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Had one of my church dreams last night. Church dreams are, for me, often painful ones involving tears (the impossibly distant altar I can...
Monday, December 21, 2015

As the Solstice Arrives, Christian Radio Stations in Bible Belt Prepare for Birth of Prince of Peace by Targeting Muslims

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As we approach the solstice, the day of the year with least light, a report to you from on the ground in the deep, dark heart of the bi...
Monday, December 14, 2015

U.S. Christian Leaders Speak Out Against Anti-Muslim Hate Speech: Making Advent Real

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Steve and I went yesterday to a local Episcopal church again, as we observed the third Sunday of Advent. Friends have repeatedly invi...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Advent: Meditating About "The Humorless Puzzle of Inequality and Hate"

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Another Advent offering for you today from a log of quotations I've kept over the years as I've read: as with yesterday's se...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Advent: "Darkness and Death Take Different Forms in Every Generation, But the Challenge of Gathering the Forces of Light and Love to Oppose Them Remains the Same"

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An Advent offering for you, continuing the themes of the meditation I posted yesterday : illuminations from many different books and ...
Monday, December 7, 2015

An Advent Meditation: The Struggle for Hope As Dark Rises and Light Shifts, and Churches Become Trivial Cultural Adjuncts of Affluent Values

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It's that time of year in which the waning of the light really does put us into a new — a different — space emotionally and spiritu...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

John Pavlovitz on Outgrowing American Christianity: "Feeling Estrangement from These Things Is a Good Thing"

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John Pavlovitz writing today at his Stuff That Needs to Be Said blog about his emancipation from American Christianity, which he reali...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Fruitcake Making, Home, and LGBT Folks in the Church: An Advent Meditation Noting the Total Silence of Pope Francis About LGBT People in Uganda

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A brief report to all of you on a dreary post-U.S. Thanksgiving weekend in which we've had enough rain to warrant two arks instea...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Christmas and the Empty Crib: Recent Catholic Commentary on the Broken Church

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What am I doing as Christmas approaches, besides baking cookies, fruitcakes, and cheese straws, you ask? And keeping the house runn...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Rachel Maddow, "This Is an Aspirational Dog"

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Well, Advent is  about living in hope, isn't it? The graphic is a screen shot from a short clip of Rachel Maddow talking about an a...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Advent Arrives: My Fellow Catholics Debate Immigration, and I Watch Appalled from the Sidelines

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Advent's here now, and I'm once again in one of those watching-appalled-from-the-sidelines moments in my spiritual journe...

Rachel Maddow on Lawrence O'Donnell's Report re: the "Mistake" Made by St. Louis Assistant Prosecutor in Ferguson Grand Jury Hearing

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In a news segment  yesterday, Rachel Maddow noted the importance of Lawrence O'Donnell's hard-hitting questions about the mistak...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Pope Francis, Anti-Gay Clobber Texts, and Hope: An Advent Meditation

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Advent's my season, in some ways. As a gay Catholic who hopes and believes that my church might eventually decide to treat me and...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Marilynne Robinson on "The Great Narrative" of Wondrous Love in the Gospels: An Advent Meditation

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I posted this excerpt from Marilynne Robinson's essay "Wondrous Love" during Holy Week 2012. I'm of a mind to publ...