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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2018/06/10

We don’t always know what we want

It is a truism that we frequently don’t know what we really want. We almost always have an answer when someone asks us, “What do you want?” but it doesn’t always reflect reality. This isn’t because we are dumb, it is because we ask for the first thing we can think of that might address […]

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2018/01/14

Change happens

 I don’t like change. I don’t know too many people who do but I especially hate it. It could come from moving a lot when I was a kid. It come from an historical awareness that makes me suspicious of any change fulfilling its promise. It is all too possible I’m simply stodgy and lazy […]

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2015/11/15

Why pray?

This Sunday’s general topic was pretty easy. The story of Hannah that opens 1 Samuel is all about prayer; Hannah prayed, God answered, end of story . . . or is it? I found myself thinking more about the narrower perspective of prayer, in particular, why pray at all? Why do we pray? If God […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Sunday, Uncategorized, Year B / fatalism, Hannah, knowing Jesus, pray, prayer, preaching, Samuel, St. Mark, why pray Leave a Comment

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