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“Temptation” is a word that has absented itself from this culture’s vocabulary and thinking. It’s so much easier to just give into it. “Save us from the time of trial,” the modern version of the Lord’s Prayer has substituted in place of “Lead us not into temptation.” But everything in the current culture points to…
El Miércoles de Ceniza es un día cargado de significado para los cristianos y, podríamos bien decir, para todo ser humano. Cuando el ministro impone las cenizas en nuestra frente y pronuncia la misteriosa frase de “acuérdate de que eres polvo y al polvo volverás” quedamos reducidos a nuestra mínima expresión humana. Somos polvo y…
Ever since the bottom fell out of the sackcloth and ashes business, we’ve not known what to do about Lent. “What do I give up?” seems to be the primary question, an inversion of Jesus’ call for us to give. Lent isn’t a time to slim or to save money by not buying chocolate or…
Todas las lecturas de hoy hablan de montañas, montañas elevadas, montañas sagradas, como los escritores las describen, al igual que las montañas elevadas y sagradas que rodean a las congregaciones episcopales en los Andes ecuatorianos de América del Sur. Muchas de estas congregaciones ecuatorianas están en las comunidades indígenas que se encuentran entre los 12.000…
[NOTE: In celebration of World Mission Sunday, the following sermon is written as a first-person account by a missionary in Tanzania, Africa.] I am a missionary in Tanzania. When people hear this, they usually have one of three reactions: “You must be a saint”; “I didn’t know the Episcopal Church had missionaries”; or “I’d like…
Today’s readings all speak of mountains – high mountains, holy mountains, as the writers describe them – much like the high and holy mountains that surround the Episcopal congregations in the Ecuadorian Andes in South America. Many of these Ecuadorian congregations are in indigenous communities that lie between 12,000 and 14,000 feet above sea level….
¿Quiénes de nosotros tienen hoy algo que les preocupa? ¿Cuántas preocupaciones tenemos? Es posible que la respuesta a estas preguntas afirme que muchos de nosotros tenemos preocupaciones, y que tenemos muchísimas cosas de las que nos preocupamos. Tal pareciera como que algunos de nosotros estuviéramos programados para preocuparnos más que otros. Lo cierto es que…
Here’s an experiment: Read the gospel appointed for today to a group of friends, all of whom have jobs, places to live, and automobiles. Then – at least in your imagination – read this gospel to the 800,000 or so people in Haiti who have been living in refugee camps for a year. This message…
En una ocasión un líder de una organización dio un informe sobre los muchos obstáculos y limitaciones que su organización tuvo que enfrentar para continuar sirviendo a niños desamparados. A medida que este presentaba el informe sobre las decisiones, cambios y formas creativas de lidiar con tantos problemas, todas las personas presentes estaban impresionadas por…
Have you ever asked yourself: “What was Jesus thinking with this ‘turn the other cheek’ stuff? Are we supposed to be doormats for the sake of our faith? Is Jesus recommending that our calling card be ‘Mistreat me. I won’t retaliate’?” A quick, simplistic reading of Jesus’ words might seem to indicate the “doormat approach,”…
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