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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2021/09/05

Doing what you are called to do = no favouritism

Favouritism is one of those things many people find maddening . . . including me! I am well aware of my own privilege and do my best to not take advantage of it so when I see other people flagrantly favourited for no good reason I am never happy about it. Neither was James, the […]

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2015/09/06

It is good to be back

It is good to be back! I had an excellent vacation and not just because I got to work some of it into one or both of the sermons (you’ll have to listen to both of them to see if I’m kidding about the both). This Sunday the Lectionary has us in the book of […]

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2012/09/09

Faith? Works? I refuse to pick one!

It crossed my mind that it might not be the wisest thing to think I have anything good to say about the whole “faith vs works” thing, after all it started the Reformation and I am most certainly not a Martin Luther, not even a Martin Luther-Lite (may I be forgiven the execrable “Lite” . […]

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