In the last post on the lectionary I gave background to the RCL (Revised Common Lectionary) and highlighted that a community discipline of following the lectionary frees us from the vagaries and some of the eccentricities of allowing pastors total discretion to pick their own favourite Bible passages. I think there is always a danger
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I recently attended a suburban Anglican church. It shall remain nameless – as its location etc. is not important. I’ll call it St. Alban for convenience. At most the church building could probably hold 130, maybe 150 people. The community who built it probably never anticipated more than a couple of hundred attending on a
small church – is beautiful Read More »
I just saw the 2008 wonderful movie “Doubt”. I have previously seen this 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley on stage. The story is a strong parable about the place of doubt in our uncertain world and lives – even binding us together, and, clearly, sometimes driving us apart. Some people, the story suggests, shore
Liturgical adviser to Hollywood Read More »
My good (pathologist) e-friend at Kirkepiscatoid (and insightful commentor on this site) has given me permission to reproduce her delightful parallels between pathology and sermon writing: The process: 1. Sermonating-you’re ruminating about it. 2. Sermonizing-you’re writing about it. 3. Sermonoplasty–after you’ve written it, you’re trimming and cutting and lifting it here and there to “make
A Priest and a Pathologist were talking about the sermon-writing process… Read More »
