The first Sunday in Lent and the Lectionary thinks our Old Testament lesson should come from Genesis. Why would the good people who put the Lectionary together think Genesis went with Lent? My first few encounters with this text in this context left me baffled. Thanks to the good offices of the Rev. Dr. Scott…
Transfiguration Sunday is another Sunday which is celebrated, or at least noted every year. As I mentioned in the sermon, it is probably a good thing it is or I might not ever preach on it. This year what caught my eye, so to say, in the texts was Paul’s use of the word “veil”…
Several things we do as human beings are difficult to interpret. What makes them difficult is their similarity to other things we do. For example, Peter Berger said, “It is possible to view social reality with compassion or with cynicism, both attitudes being compatible with clear-sightedness.”* My “take” on Berger’s point is identical actions can…