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Bribery in the highest offices of government, ethics are trampled as officials chase after trade deals that line the pockets of those in power, people are dying of plague and poverty in a world that doesn’t seem to care, partisan politics and dehumanizing opponents is the norm in a world where the powerful and those…
Well friends, it is a great privilege to be here with you this morning. It’s just a year since I left St. Paul’s as your seminarian, though perhaps you’ll agree with me that it feels like maybe two or three or five years has passed A year ago, I drove to the church and packed…
This is Low Sunday, or that Second Sunday after Easter where, in my experience, everyone tries their hand with our friend Thomas: Thomas the doubter, or Thomas the faithful, or Thomas who just needs proof. But if we look at the gospel for today, Thomas is just one part. Jesus appears to the disciples on…
We began this Holy Week thinking about crowds. The crowds that followed Jesus, shouting Hosanna in the Highest, and waving palm branches. A crowd, that, as Fr. Noah pointed out, so quickly changed from “Hosanna” to “Crucify him”—a crowd caught up in the energy of celebration which quickly turns to discontent. A crowd that follows Jesus,…
Farmgirl Writes 