There’s a new show on TV (that I haven’t watched) called Shark Tank. The premise is budding inventors present their ideas to rich entrepreneurs to see if anyone wants to back them financially. Anyhoos, this weeks ad features a shark repellent. Shark. Repellent. I, of course, observed that the shark repellent has to come in …
Unless it needs the death and resurrection of Jesus to make sense, it’s not a sermon, it’s a motivational talk. “We ought to preach in such a way that, if Jesus has not been raised from the dead, then our sermons are utterly incomprehensible. Faithful sermons require the presence of the Holy Spirit to make …
How do you tell a scribe from a prophet…? The prophets love the people they chastise… From Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
My feed-reader is filling up with a variety of reflections on Lent. I’m among those who are not practitioners. This piece by Sarah Condon at Mockingbird is very constructive in reminding us that Christian devotion must focus on what Christ has done, not on efforts to emulate that which he alone could do. An excerpt: …
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