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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2021/12/05

Memory and peace

How are memory and peace connected? I suppose an equally useful question is, Are they connected? I think they are. I think they are connected in a particular way. I don’t know anyone who is opposed to the notion of peace. In fact, I know many people who are completely in favour of peace. It […]

Article by Barry / Advent, Preaching, Year C / memory, peace, preaching, prophecy, remembering Leave a Comment

2019/11/10

God of the living

Today was Remembrance Sunday, at least for us. There a a lot of ways one can go with Remembrance Sunday, it is complicated when it coincides with Remembrance Day but there are some givens regardless of the calendar date.  We observed two minutes of silence, which is a very long time for most of us. […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / Allan, God of the living, Luke, memory, poppy, preaching, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday Leave a Comment

2018/09/16

Not all proverbs are true

That’s a little provocative, as blog posts go when you tend to talk about the Bible. Which proverb am I talking about? The Old Testament reading for this Sunday is Proverbs 1:20-33, am I singling one of those out? As a matter of fact, I am not. Proverbs are found all over the place, not […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / encouragemnt, James, memory, preaching, speech, tongue, wisdom, words Leave a Comment

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