This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily reading along with a headline from world news: BLAIR BACKS MILITARY COUP IN EGYPT   Genesis 16:15-17:14 Good News Translation (GNT) 15 Hagar bore Abram a son, and he named him Ishmael. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old at the time. Circumcision, the Sign of the Covenant […]