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NOT IN GOD’S NAME

Do not believe you can rectify the past by avenging it. That way you merely succeed in perpetuating the past instead of healing it.rabbi jonathan sacks This past summer I read a book titled Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence, by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Ostensibly, it is an analysis of Genesis, the first bookContinueContinue reading “NOT IN GOD’S NAME”

THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.psalm 19:14 (book of common prayer, p. 607) For as long as I have preached, with few exceptions, I have opened my sermons with a prayer. Regardless of its length, IContinueContinue reading “THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH”

WHAT NO EYE HAS SEEN

The Everett Covered Bridge, over the Ohio Erie Canal in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. “God has prepared things for those who love him that no eye has seen, or ear has heard, or that haven’t crossed the mind of any human being.”1 corinthians 2:9 (common english bible) Now that I have stepped away fromContinueContinue reading “WHAT NO EYE HAS SEEN”