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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2021/09/05

Doing what you are called to do = no favouritism

Favouritism is one of those things many people find maddening . . . including me! I am well aware of my own privilege and do my best to not take advantage of it so when I see other people flagrantly favourited for no good reason I am never happy about it. Neither was James, the […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / deeds, faith, favoritism, favouritism, James, preaching, privilege, works Leave a Comment

2018/09/09

More wisdom

When many of us think of wisdom, in the context of church, we think of the Wisdom Literature (not the capital “W”) in the Old Testament. This is understandable but a little limited. Jesus drew on the tradition of the Old Testament Wisdom Literature and so did other New Testament writers. It wasn’t until I […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Sunday, Year B / favoritism, favouritism, incompatibilities, incompatible, indifference, James, preaching, wisdom Leave a Comment

2014/01/12

Favouritism? Partiality? Nope, not here.

Favouritism, partiality, no matter what you call it, NO ONE likes it. Even when the deck is stacked in our favour there is still a little something that we don’t like about it. When someone else gets ahead because of favouritism being directed to them then there isn’t a little something we don’t like about […]

Article by Barry / Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / advocate, Baptism of the Lord, favouritism, partiality, preaching, understand, understanding Leave a Comment

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