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Book Review: The Last Week
Posted by: revjmk on: April 26, 2011
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The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach about Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem, by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, HarperCollins, 2006, 238 pp. While I should have read this book earlier in Lent, to have it undergird my preparations for Holy Week services, it became my Holy Week practice to read a [...]
Sermon Sapling: Epiphany 3A — Put Down the Nets
Posted by: revjmk on: January 19, 2011
Highlighted Passage: Matthew 4:12-23 Put down your nets—you’re after the wrong fish. When Jesus approached those would-be disciples on the shores of the Galilee, they were doing what they had done every day, probably since they were young boys—climb into boats, row out into the Sea of Galilee, cast out nets to catch fish, haul [...]
On Being Irritable
Posted by: revjmk on: January 15, 2011
I am just downright irritable this morning. And I hate being this way. Normally, I am a very chipper person. So much so that I am often accused of being annoying, pollyanna-ish and overly optimistic. But occasionally–like today–I am just downright grumpy. And I don’t like it. Or much of anything else at the moment. [...]
Advent 4A — Praying with Love
Posted by: revjmk on: December 14, 2010
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Sometimes, I need to take time early in the week to express my disagreements and resentments toward a passage of scripture. It is my hope that, by Sunday, these frustrations can be transformed into a helpful, insightful struggle to share with others, or at least be set aside to make way for the Gospel. This [...]
Book Review: Home
Posted by: revjmk on: August 8, 2010
Home by Marilynne Robinson, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008, 325 pp. Marilynne Robinson is the master of tension. In Gilead, the tension is all internal, as she dissects the mind of Rev. John Ames, the Congregational preacher haunted by loneliness, history, guilt and grudges. Home moves down the road in the town of Gilead, to [...]
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I am a full-time pastor in the United Church of Christ, mother of a preschooler (B.), married to an aspiring academic and curmudgeon (J.). I live by faith, intuition and intellect. I follow politics, football and the Boston Red Sox. I like to talk about progressive issues, theological concerns, church life, the impact of technology and media, pop culture and books.
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