July 10, 2016
When I was a little girl, an elderly neighbor was describing a project he was working on and he kept talking about a “plumb-bob.” I could not for the life of me figuring out how a piece of fruit could help him build a wall! A plumb-bob, or as it is called in today’s reading…
July 3, 2016
On Thursday I was sitting on the deck at Boomer’s, having lunch with my sister-in-law, when I looked down and my arm was bleeding. Not sure if I scratched it, or knocked against a scratch that was healing—but it was bleeding and would not stop. I pressed a napkin against it, but it wasn’t doing…
June 26, 2106
“Jesus set his face to go to Jerusalem.” I thought of this image the other day when I was in the pool and pushing myself toward those last eight or ten laps. I told someone once that I wonder what my face must look like as I am driving myself back and forth when I…
June 19, 2016
The story from today’s Gospel reading is weird and disturbing. But after the events of the past week or two, I venture to say that it unsettles us not just because of its weirdness, but because there is something familiar in it. We may be 21st century educated sophisticates—but we still have to deal with…
June 12, 2016
In today’s readings, we hear a couple of different stories about people’s gratitude—or lack thereof—and how it affects their lives. First there is Ahab. We talked about him a couple of weeks ago; he is the epitome of bad leadership; the most evil king of all, held up for generations as the example of what…
May 29, 2016
This first reading, about Elijah and the priests of Baal and the bulls and the sacrifice is all just so weird and at times funny…as much as I also love the story from the Gospel, about the amazing faith of the Gentile centurion, I want to focus on the Old Testament reading for today. First…
Trinity Sunday May 22, 2016
Quick survey—and be honest. Who woke up this morning, bounced out of bed and said, ‘Oh, boy! I can’t wait to hear Nancy preach on the doctrine of the Trinity! I sure hope she uses the word perichoresis!” ? Nobody? Yeah, I’m not surprised. All week long I wrestled with the basic question: do I…
