This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news: Infrared Camera gives new images of Lobster Nebula Hebrews 4 The Rest That God Promised 4Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have […]
Women and Young People have no voice in electing new Pope Hebrews 3 Moses a Servant, Christ a Son 3Therefore, brothers and sisters,* holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,2was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also ‘was faithful in all* […]
I’ve often enjoyed the disctinctive theology of the Letter to Hebrews. It provides the Episcopal daily readings this week. The headline reminds us of our human capacity to sacrifice another person or group as a scapegoat for our ills. Great Flamenco dancer Galvan shares Roma protest against French deportations Hebrews 2:11-18 11For the one who sanctifies and […]
Today’s blog is written as I prepare for the first Sunday in Lent, the season before Easter when the church asks me to test my faith and my life against the way of Jesus. I’m using the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news: Gaza Child Victim Photo wins Press prize John […]
Todays blog is offered in haste. It uses one of the Episcopal daily readings. John 1:35-42 The First Disciples of Jesus 35 The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples,36and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, ‘Look, here is the Lamb of God!’37The two disciples heard him say this, […]
Today I’m taking my wife and daughter to Edinburgh as a Valentine’s day gift. Today’s blog which uses the Episcopal daily reading, reflects on a different aspect of love. Deuteronomy 7:6-11 6For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on […]
As Scotland gets the tail-end of the snowstorm which covered Eastern USA, this morning’s blog picks up the Episcopal daily reading along with a headline from world news: Mystery prisoner who died alone in Israeli prison was Australian and former Mossad spy HEBREWS 12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of […]
This blog reflects on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news Korea says, You have nuclear bombs-why not us? Hebrews 2:1-10 Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.2For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every […]
This Monday’s blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news: Pope Benedict announces retirement (Not a good institution, I believe, but a good man) Hebrews 1:1-14 God Has Spoken by His Son 1Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,2but in […]
This blog provids a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news Tunisians protest aganist rule by religion Galatians 5:25-6:10 25If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.26Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another. Bear One Another’s Burdens 6My […]
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