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Always in the presence
I wrote this liturgy for the beginning of worship in 2016 when 9/11 fell on a Sunday. As I came across it today, I was touched by how it speaks to the tragedies and shadows of our time. + … Continue reading
“What are you thankful for?”
My brother didn’t ask the question “What are your thankful for in this last year?” If he had, I could have spoken about the wonderful connections I have had with old friends, the time spent with family, the great staff I have to work with and some of the high points of the year. I could have spoken about the people I love, including those around the table. But he didn’t ask this question; he asked the more existential question, “What are you thankful for?” Continue reading
Posted in Easter, Grief, Hope, Thanksgiving
Tagged Christian Faith, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, Easter, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Promise, Religion and Spirituality, Sorrow, Thanksgiving
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A table in the dark
There is something haunting, lovely and deeply true about this photograph. Taken late at night the day after Easter, when all have gone home and the building and campus are still, here stands this solemn, peaceful testimony to the promise of Easter. In the darkness of the world is a table of life. Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Easter, Holy Communion, Hope
Tagged Darkness, Easter, Holy Communion, Life, Light
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Ash Wednesday begins the journey
Tomorrow we begin our long journey to Jerusalem where Jesus will wash feet, break bread, pray in Gethsemane, get kissed by Judas and abandoned by his followers, be abused by the thugs who snatched him in the night and tortured by Roman Soldiers in the full light of day. And he will not fight back. He will raise no army. He will lift no sword. He will call for no chariots of fire. There will be no joining of earthly and heavenly armies to slay the imperial troops of Rome. There will be hammer and nails and a tomb with its entrance barred by a stone. Continue reading
Neither death nor life…
There is lament in this psalm, to be sure. The poet cries out against all the suffering, shame and loss they have experienced. But back towards the beginning of the psalm is this verse whose voice lingers: “Happy are the people who know the festal shout.” Continue reading
Posted in American Society, Democracy, Hope, Psalms, The Common Good
Tagged Apple, Churches, Corporate taxes, Democracy, Easter, God's Love, Google, Governance, Government, Hope, Love of neighbor, Michael Lewis, Open doors, Psalm 89, Romans 8, Santa Rosa fire, Sutherland Springs, Taxes, Texas shooting, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, UPS
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Side by side
I offered to go with a friend to a funeral tomorrow. I do not know the person who died, but I know how crappy it is to go to a funeral alone. At my brother’s funeral so many decades ago … Continue reading
Posted in Easter, Grief, Our true humanity
Tagged Community, Easter, Erik Kenneth Bonde, Friendship, funeral, Grief, Ken Bonde, Sorrow
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The journey to our humanity
A reflection as we begin Maundy Thursday Tonight we begin the worship service that stretches over these next three days and walks us anew through the death and resurrection of Jesus. This service not only sets before us the story … Continue reading
Posted in Easter, Holy Week, Our true humanity, Spirituality
Tagged Compassion, Confession and Absolution, Easter, Easter Vigil, Good Friday, Grace, Greed, Hate, Honor, Love, Maundy Thursday, Our broken world, Our true humanity, Religion and Spirituality, Sin, Spiritual formation, The human spiritual journey, The Paschal Triduum, The Three Days, Violence
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Praying Good Friday
O thou who art the voice in the eternal silence, the light in the spreading darkness the warmth in the growing cold, the peace in the rising fear, the truth in the crowded confusion: Wounded, you heal. Broken, you restore. … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Prayer
Tagged Christ Jesus, Christian Life, Death of Jesus, Easter, Good Friday, Hope, Joy, Prayer, Religion and Spirituality
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Remembering the day
I was alone on campus when the phone call came. My dad had been trying to reach me, but there was only one phone for the two corridors on my side of the floor in the freshman dorm, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Grief, Hope, The Incarnation
Tagged Cross, Easter, Erik Kenneth Bonde, Grief, Healing, Hope, Incarnation, Ken Bonde, Life, New Creation, Remembering, Sorrow
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