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Friday Icon: el loco

art via Six years ago, I visited Barcelona with my family in the summer, just before I started divinity school.  I’d just started to admit to people–sometimes for the shock value–that I was headed...

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Is God Calling?

Has God ever told you to go raise someone from the dead?  Years ago, a friend thought God had told her to go to a stranger’s funeral, touch the body, and tell it to get up. Last week, as I was telling...

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When Easter doesn’t feel like Easter

van Gogh’s The Raising of Lazarus This sermon is offered as part of the Eastertide Sermon Series at Evensong here at Trinity, exploring facets of Jesus’ resurrection.  Today I preach on the...

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Friday Icon: Chartres Cathedral

Chartres Cathedral Portal The four beasts surrounding Jesus in this sculpture are a lion, a calf, a man, and an eagle (there’s no coincidence that these are similar to the four creatures which...

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finale season

I had no choice but to be a Christian. In finale season–we might even call this past week “Finale Week” (do people do that?  I’m not tuned-in enough to know)–I am a hopeless case.  I troll the...

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Friday Icon

via Christ on the Mount of Olives, life-size sculpture in Strasbourg Cathedral, 1498  This collection of sculpture twists time, featuring a few Jesuses–here seen both kneeling at the Mount and hanging...

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Praise God

If you’re here this morning feeling triumphant and joyous and free because of the Supreme Court’s decisions this past week, praise God. If you’re here this morning feeling queasy and uncertain because...

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Merry Christmas!

A meditation I wrote for today sent out via the Living Church Daily Devotional: CLICK HERE. (Subscribing is FREE, just click the link in the upper left corner of the new window; you’ll get a sweet...

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A Tale of Two Brothers

“There was a man who had two sons.” Jesus was preaching to sinners and tax collectors—the societal scum of the earth—but the pharisees and scribes were listening in too—the acceptable, impressive, and...

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The Kingdom of Heaven

Last week, I saw the Kingdom of Heaven on Rosemont Avenue. That’s the name of the street where I live up in North Oak Cliff, and I want to offer a witness here this morning. The Kingdom of Heaven broke...

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