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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2017/03/05 By Barry Leave a Comment

The beginning of Lent

I grew up in a tradition that did not really do anything with or about Lent. The Canadian prairie conservative evangelicals I grew up around were deeply suspicious of anything that might be interpreted as “not-their-sort-of-Protestantism.” I sometimes wondered what they were afraid of, after all at this remove I think we can say the […]

Filed Under: Lent, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: beginning, Lent, Lenten journey, preaching

2017/01/01 By Barry Leave a Comment

Happy New Year!

It is a brand new year! For some this is a time to make resolutions that may or may not be kept. For others it is a time of reflection on the year past. For all of us, at least if we follow the Gregorian calendar, it is a new beginning. New beginnings are lots […]

Filed Under: Christmas, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: 2017, beginning, Christmas 1, Hebrews 2:10-18, Isaiah 63:7-9, Matthew 2:13-23, new year, preaching, Psalm 148

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