Pentecost 4C Luke 7:36-8:3 Lately, I’ve heard a lot of people say, “I’m spiritual but not religious.” This phrase makes me very uncomfortable. For a long time I could not figure out exactly what they meant. Did being “spiritual” make them “spiritualists”? That’s an old-fashioned phrase for people who engaged in the occult. But no,…
“Good Friday is the day you can do nothing. Bewailing and lamenting your manifold sins does not in itself make up for them. Scouring your soul in a frenzy of spring cleaning only sterilizes it; it does not give it life. On Good Friday, finally, we are all, mourners and mockers alike, reduced to the…
In anticipation of Maundy Thursday, here’s a reprint post from a couple of years ago that looks at the John 13 text about footwashing. 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…
The other day I saw a little Batman and Robin cartoon that really made me smile. I love Batman anyway, so the fact that it was church related humor made it even more attractive. In the cartoon Robin is saying the first part of that Lenten no-no word. He gets about half of it out,…
This past week our Sunday school began, at the request of a participant, a study of women in the bible. Since I am a “lady pastor” as some wish to call me, I have always shied away from teaching many classes exclusively about women in scripture largely because I am concerned that such a thing…
Shepherdess Writes 