Pentecost 20B Mark 10:17-31 For two weeks now, we’ve had some difficult Gospel texts. Not difficult because they were hard to believe due to fantastic healings or miracles. No, the things in these texts are difficult in decidedly human ways. Last week, it was divorce and this week…..it’s money. Where is the Gospel in all…
Easter 6B John 15:9-17 We have some crazy ideas about love, don’t we? Just think of all the ways we hear it used. Love is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. Love means never having to say you’re sorry. And, as the Beatles say, all you need is love. My…
Epiphany 6B 2 Kings 5:1-14 Mark 1:40-45 Blessed St Valentine’s Day week to you all. It seems that all the world is filled with flowers, hearts, cards and the real proof of love—Chocolate! Some of us may think of this holiday as “singles awareness day” as I have heard it called in the past. But…
Pentecost 19A Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18 Matthew 22:34-46 At the beginning of the movie, Love Actually, the voice of the character who plays the British Prime Minister has a little speech about love: “Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at the Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting…
At midnight last night/this morning I saw the last and final movie in the Harry Potter series. Don’t judge me. Actually, on second thought, judge me all you want. I don’t care. It is a fine story, fairly well made movie series and it has some fantastic British actors in it, not the least of…
Shepherdess Writes 