“Shooting the Messenger”
When I was growing up, the radio at our house was pretty much on from the time my folks got up until the soaps came on the television at 11:30 in the morning. Then after the soaps were over, it came back on until time for the TV evening news. And when I got older, I would turn it on in my room after supper, and listen until bedtime.
“The Soles of God’s Feet”
When I was growing up, the radio at our house was pretty much on from the time my folks got up until the soaps came on the television at 11:30 in the morning. Then after the soaps were over, it came back on until time for the TV evening news. And when I got older, I would turn it on in my room after supper, and listen until bedtime.
“I’m Mad Too, Jonah”
When I was growing up, the radio at our house was pretty much on from the time my folks got up until the soaps came on the television at 11:30 in the morning. Then after the soaps were over, it came back on until time for the TV evening news. And when I got older, I would turn it on in my room after supper, and listen until bedtime.
“Imposition”
1 Kings 17:1-24 This past Wednesday, when it was so cold and rainy and generally awful, a little face appeared at our catflap. He had been there before, but the last time I saw him there, he ran away as soon as he saw me. Little fellah has been hanging […]
“You’re In for It”
1 Samuel 8 When God made a covenant with Israel, after bringing them out of slavery in Egypt, God had a vision for what the people would be like, how they would organize themselves and be governed. Israel was meant to be a peculiar nation—peculiar in this sense meaning not […]
“Developmental Milestones”
I have a pretty vivid memory of something that happened when I was twelve years old. Honestly, it was incredibly trivial, and I doubt anyone else remembers it.
“A God We Can See”
There was a time when I watched a lot of old TV westerns. We had a channel on our cable system that was all westerns, all the time, and in the afternoons and early evenings they show various TV western series—from the first ones, Cheyenne (whose star, Clint Walker, was originally from just across the Mississippi from St. Louis) and The Lone Ranger, all the way to The Young Riders, which dates to the early 1990s and is about the Pony Express.
“In all things…”
Genesis 50:15-21 The first eleven chapters of Genesis are what some scholars call “Hebrew Mythology.” The term “mythology,” contrary to popular usage, doesn’t make any judgment about the truth or factuality of a story. It just means a story in which a divine being interacts directly with humans. In the […]
“What Went Wong?”
Genesis 3:1-24 About 25 years ago, Bill Moyers and Rabbi Burt Visotzky gathered a group of scholars and artists—men and women, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and even (if I remember correctly) an atheist or two—to talk about Genesis. It was sort of an interfaith take on the Jewish interpretive method […]
“… a paradise that makes me think of two… “
Genesis 2:4-9, 15-25 (Sermon title is from “Old Man” by Neil Young, from his 1970 album Harvest.) We are learning some interesting lessons from the current pandemic. One is that nobody really likes wearing masks. In the summer when it’s hot and humid, they’re downright unpleasant. One of my masks […]
“No Expiration Date, Good Anywhere”
Revelation 21:1-7 I’ve never been all that great with coupons. When I was in college, and first out of college, and didn’t have a whole lot of money, I clipped coupons religiously. Every Sunday when the paper came I would pull out the slick stuff and cut out the coupons […]