Author: Gregory

  • The Space Between, where the Shadow lurks

    I wonder whether Jesus knew what to expect, going up onto the mountain. I wonder whether Moses knew what to expect going up onto the mountain. It’s pretty clear that Peter and James and John had no idea what to expect. Peter, as he frequently is, is caught completely off-guard and is sort of babbling–like,…

  • Love that Chooses Weakness

    Jesus is full of contradictions today, as he so often is. Blessed are the poor, blessed are the mourning, the hungry, the merciful, the persecuted. These are not people we usually think of as particularly blessed. And they are not the people who end up in power. They are not people who end up winning…

  • The End of the World As We Know It (Advent 1B)

    Our religious practice has a pretty tenuous relationship with historical time. Of course we know that centuries separate the Exodus and the Resurrection, but in liturgical time, they happen on the same day. Likewise manna in the wilderness and the Eucharist, the Suffering Servant and the Passion of Christ: time folds in on itself, and…

  • There Would Be No Power (Proper 21A)

    27 September 2020 Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 · Philippians 2:1-13 · Matthew 21:23-32 By this point in the Gospel, Jesus knows he doesn’t have much time left. Just yesterday, he made his (more or less) triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, drove out the money-changers from the temple, insulted them, overturned their…

  • The Space Between, where the Shadow lurks

    I wonder whether Jesus knew what to expect, going up onto the mountain. I wonder whether Moses knew what to expect going up onto the mountain. It’s pretty clear that Peter and James and John had no idea what to expect. Peter, as he frequently is, is caught completely off-guard and is sort of babbling–like,…

  • Love that Chooses Weakness

    Jesus is full of contradictions today, as he so often is. Blessed are the poor, blessed are the mourning, the hungry, the merciful, the persecuted. These are not people we usually think of as particularly blessed. And they are not the people who end up in power. They are not people who end up winning…

  • The End of the World As We Know It (Advent 1B)

    Our religious practice has a pretty tenuous relationship with historical time. Of course we know that centuries separate the Exodus and the Resurrection, but in liturgical time, they happen on the same day. Likewise manna in the wilderness and the Eucharist, the Suffering Servant and the Passion of Christ: time folds in on itself, and…

  • There Would Be No Power (Proper 21A)

    27 September 2020 Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 · Philippians 2:1-13 · Matthew 21:23-32 By this point in the Gospel, Jesus knows he doesn’t have much time left. Just yesterday, he made his (more or less) triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, drove out the money-changers from the temple, insulted them, overturned their…