We don’t use the word “covenant” too often these days. We have contracts, agreements, memoranda of understanding, etc. but we don’t enter into covenants very often. In some wedding ceremonies, the word is used to describe the agreement the happy couple is entering, but that’s about the only place we are likely to encounter it….
Days. The good old days. The bad old days. Better days. Back in the day. We talk about days a lot, which makes sense, a day is a handy and flexibly measure. There are all sorts of ways to define a day, 24 hours, sunup to sundown, one sleep to the next sleep. We also…
It’s Thanksgiving Sunday, at least in Canada, so it seemed like a good idea to reflect on being thankful . . . as long as the Lectionary provided an appropriate text. As is so often the case there was an appropriate text but not the obvious one. The Gospel lesson is the story of Jesus…