Today was a great Easter! A beautiful day and a wonderful luncheon with friends. Tomorrow I hit the road for the week. I should have time available during the days, but meetings interspersed and receptions every night so my posting may be erratic.
Easter Sunday, Year A Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:7-8) – Amen. Last Sunday I spoke of our […]
Woke up this morning to snow! I thought there was this whole global warming thing… # @colecamplese Same here. The colored plastic eggs should be easier to find in the snow…I guess…. # Looking for vid from last night’s Leno. They haven’t updated the site sice July! http://snurl.com/22csn # @dtatusko […]
Tom+ has an article on the resurrection. I wonder what the special event would be to merit that. There is a curious a-f formatting of paragraphs, it is quite short, but to the point and of course wholly correct. Nicholas T. Wright: The Resurrection Revolution – On Faith at washingtonpost.com […]
An annual tradition for my wife and I (her father began it when they were children) is to play, very loudly the soundtrack from Jesus Christ Superstar. I am always moved to tears at many moments and filled with energy and joy at others. But Herod’s Song is just a […]
I have just finished my homily on the Fourth Words of Jesus (Matt. 27:46, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”) and in reading it with Psalm 22, I realized that there are very different renderings of verse 29 in the English, 30 in the Hebrew. אכלו […]
As my daughter said, “I thought it was global warming not global colding!” I am not sure if the egg hunt is going to happen this morning or not. Drew’s pictures put my shot from the cover of the back porch to shame so I had to go and take […]
The Seven Last Words of ChristThe Fourth Word Matt. 27:45 From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 46 And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” […]
I did not realize that we had so much in common! I too am a long time of the Boys, not least because of Tom Landry and Roger Staubach. First Tank, now Pacman? What has become of my beloved Dallas Cowboys? Why are they building their roster on thugs and […]