Ah, Trinity Sunday. This is one of the Sundays that preachers might wish never made it into the liturgical year. The Trinity is not exactly the easiest doctrine to explain . . . because it is essentially un-explainable. That doesn’t mean there aren’t things we do know about it, things we can say about it; […]
Let’s talk friends
Friend. One of the most powerful and evocative words in the language. I have never encountered anyone who says they have too many friends, in this case Facebook friends do not count. We love the friends we have. We want to have friends. So what do we do with Jesus saying in John 15 where […]
The Ten Commandments revisited
It has been a long time since I spent any real time thinking about the Ten Commandments. I’m not indifferent to them or anything like that, they just haven’t come up lately. I was doing some reading about the Lectionary texts, an act which I have noticed is becoming more common this year, and something […]