Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It happens often in the Gospels. Jesus says something or does something, and people want to ask questions or press him in some other way, but they don’t. Perhaps it’s… Continue reading Questions, Questions, Questions
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That Long, Ornamented Tunic and Us
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Consider Joseph’s brothers, who we learn in Genesis 37 are so envious of Joseph that they plot to get him out of their way. Other than that “long ornamented tunic,”… Continue reading That Long, Ornamented Tunic and Us
God’s Just Not Fair
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It doesn’t sound fair, does it, the pronouncement in today’s lectionary first reading from Ezekiel 18 that someone who was good and became bad will die, despite that past goodness… while someone… Continue reading God’s Just Not Fair
“The Fasting I Wish”
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. The “giving up” part of Lent is the easy part, isn’t it? That’s not to say it’s simple to give up smoking or chocolate or wine or