This week I purchased a label maker. It’s pretty fancy, too! I remember the old fashioned label makers of my youth with plastic tape and a little wheel you spun around to the right letter and then you’d squeeze to make the white imprint of the letter on the tape. Not so with this! There’s…
sermon for Easter 4A Psalm 23 John 10:1-10 Imagine the scene given to us in our psalm for today. Here is a nice, pretty pastoral picture. Fields of fresh green grass, cool stream of gentle water, happy little sheep grazing, drinking and napping in this picturesque landscape. A shepherd standing by, watching over the little…
Earlier today some colleagues and I had a bit of a debate and discussion about foot washing. It was timely since tomorrow is Maundy Thursday and footwashing, a common occurence on this day, is often accompanied by some anxiety. The whens, hows, whys, why nots and various other permutations were bounced around and an alternative option…
One of the most profound things I’ve ever heard spoken about scripture is this: God did not give us the bible we wanted; he gave us the bible we needed. So, too, is this true of Jesus. God did not give us the savior, the messiah, that the Jews expected or wanted or that we…
I love the Agnus Day comic. If you have not seen it before, take some time to check it out. It is a lectionary based weekly comic with two sheep. The one for this week is about, of course, Palm Sunday: Palm/Passion Sunday, at least as I often end up doing it, is a bit…
Shepherdess Writes 