Saints, Revealed

All Saints 2020

Beloved, we are God’s children right now—nothing is more true than that—but what we will be has not yet been revealed. I find so much comfort in that statement from the First Letter of John, but also plenty of challenge. How will the witness of my life be revealed when generations to come look back on my … Read the rest

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Subjunctive Saints

maybeAll Saints

In these final painful days of our electoral season, when saintliness seems remote from the public sphere, the familiar words of what’s popularly known as the Golden Rule: “do to others as you would have them do to you” seem to take on a special urgency. Mostly because they are the words of our Lord, whose teaching I … Read the rest

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Who are These, Robed in White?

All Saints Sunday                                                                                                                        Revelation 7: 9-17

“Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?” I have been quite captivated by this question from our first lesson. For one, thing I myself am robed in white, so hazmat-suityou would be totally within your rights to ask who I am and where I came from. Over the course … Read the rest

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