Acts 16 Archives - LiftUpYourHearts

Purple is the New Orange

Perhaps you’ve seen the funny but kind of edgy Netflix drama called “Orange is the new Black.” It’s set in a women’s prison, which makes all kinds of improbable human interactions possible. I heard an interview with the screenwriter, who explained that an enclosed setting like a prison is the perfect narrative device, because it makes it possible … Read the rest

Made for Freedom

Easter 7C

I heard through the grapevine that Rev. Karen preached on basketball last Sunday. And I was so glad, because I am utterly incapable of preaching on sports. It’s good to have a diversity of preachers who use different metaphors for our life in Christ, and—since basketball isn’t in my wheelhouse—I was grateful that Karen took one for the … Read the rest

Dealing in Purple

Easter 6C

Last June and July the 78^th General Convention of the Episcopal Church was convened in Salt Lake City. You may have heard some of the news from there: Michael Curry was elected our Presiding Bishop, marriage equality was affirmed, the triennial budget was passed with significant new investments in evangelism and racial reconciliation. This was the official … Read the rest

Telling the Truthiness

Acts 16:16-34

Did you know that “truthiness” was Merriam Webster’s “word of the year” for 2006? Various Internet sources define “truthiness” as an argument or assertion that claims to be true, without regard to evidence. Faux newscaster Stephen Colbert coined the word in the pilot episode of his political satire The Colbert Report, and the truth became—well—history.

Which leads me … Read the rest