Yes, you read the title correctly, Happy new year! It is a new church year. The Lectionary year begins with the first Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of Hope. This year I was reminded, as I did some reading of Walter Brueggemann, of the both/and nature of Advent. We are “in between” the two Advents […]
Who gets hurt by sin?
Well I finally preached a sermon, or sermons, on sin. There is such a resistance to even the word “sin” but it really isn’t all that scary a word. What I was trying to do today is to help us to see that sin is never victim-less; there is the concept of victim-less crimes but […]