3rd Sunday in Lent John 4:5-30, Exodus 17:1-7 Once upon a time, I lived not in a place called “striving” or “testing,” as did the Israelites in this story: but in a land named Absolute, in Certainty’s backyard: in a place where doubt was searched out carefully, like a weed, and ruthlessly uprooted. I remember [...]
Acts 8. I John 4. I John 4:7-21 Acts 8:26-40 There is a Chinese blessing—or maybe a curse?—that goes may you live in interesting times. I think we’re so blessed—as was the protagonist Philip in this morning’s story from the book of Acts; and as was the theologian Dorothee Soelle, who grew up in war-time [...]
