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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/04/05 By Barry 1 Comment

Cognitive dissonance Sunday?

So today is Palm / Passion Sunday. I’m drawing a blank on any other day of the year that draws together two such disparate notions. On the one hand we have Jesus entering Jerusalem in triumph, lauded by the crowds with palm branches and cloaks thrown on the road before him. On the other hand […]

Filed Under: Lent, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Palm, Palm Sunday, palm/passion, Passion, preaching

2020/03/29 By Barry Leave a Comment

Dead? Are you sure?

We all know what dead means. During these days of the COVID-19 pandemic the notion is probably closer to the surface than usual.It is all too easy to see “dead” as the end because it usually is an end. Even someone who dislikes binaries and false-dichotomies as much as I do admit the binary of […]

Filed Under: Lent, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: COVID-19, dead, dreams, dry bones, Ezekiel, hopes, Jesus, Lazarus, Lent, lent 5, new live, pandemic, preaching, questions

2020/03/22 By Barry Leave a Comment

The darkness is not too dark

This is quite the new normal we are finding ourselves in. Social distancing is changing almost everything we do from personal interaction to buying groceries to how we do church. Church is one of those things we may not think is too important until we are forced to think about what it is like when […]

Filed Under: Lent, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: church regardless, coronavirus, COVID-19, darkness, online, online community, preaching

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