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How is this God?

Posted in contemplation on 16 November 2008 - 19 חשון 5769

`You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest.
OW IS This God? To-day’s [...]

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Justice Ain’t Pretty.

Posted in contemplation, politics, saints and days on 8 November 2008 - 11 חשון 5769

DVENT Is said to begin in the Western Church four Sundays before Christmas. (This year that’s the last Sunday in November - some years it’s the first Sunday of December.) It has not always been so, however: the older tradition of the Eastern Church makes Advent to begin on 15 November. It [...]

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Whose Money?

Posted in contemplation, liturgy on 19 October 2008 - 21 תשרי 5769

And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
Matthew 22:20 (AV)
HOULD YOU, Like many, happen to read today’s assignment in the RCL, Proper 24, Year A, in a modern translation, you will probably hear the above question phrased as, Then he said to them, “Whose head is this, and whose title?”
And then you’d [...]

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Don’t Wait Too Long

Posted in contemplation on 12 October 2008 - 14 תשרי 5769

EADING The RCL for today, Year A, Proper 23, I’m struck by something as I read this story. And I’m sure it’s been clear to others for a long while: when Aaron made the Golden Calf he named it YHVH! And he also referred to it (one statue) as “Elohim”. This may be [...]

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Taken Away from you

Posted in contemplation on 5 October 2008 - 7 תשרי 5769

ISTENING THIS Morning to the readings at Church, Proper 22: Year A in the Revised Common Lectionary, I was struck to the core by this line from Matthew:
[Jesus is speaking] Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the [...]

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Sinners in the Church

Posted in contemplation on 6 September 2008 - 7 אלול 5768

Jesus said, “If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may [...]

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Conformed to the World

Posted in contemplation on 23 August 2008 - 23 אב 5768

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the [...]

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But what about them, Lord?

Posted in contemplation on 16 August 2008 - 16 אב 5768

AUL May be the first one to wrestle publicly with the question of difference between Jews (and Gentiles) who accept Jesus as Messiah and specifically Jews who reject Jesus as Messiah. He is doing so in to-day’s RCL readings (for Proper 15, Year A, RCL):
Just as you were once disobedient to God but [...]

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The Word of Trust

Posted in contemplation on 10 August 2008 - 10 אב 5768

HERE IS THIS Story about Rabbi Eliezer Ben Hircanus, a student about St Paul’s age, that I’ve cited before. It’s an important tale from the Midrash because it explains the Midrash, the entirety of the Talmudic process by which the meaning of Jewish Law is expanded to include things not actually there. It [...]

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Clinging

Posted in contemplation on 2 August 2008 - 2 אב 5768

I will not let you go, unless you bless me.
HIS IS One of those curious scenes in the Bible. On several places in the Hebrew Scriptures (especially in Genesis) angels serve double-duty as the Presence of God. In this story of Jacob, after wrestling all night with him, the stranger says Jacob has “wrestled [...]

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