Christianity and the American Art

Texts on Sunday, May 29, 2005 — prior to Memorial Day Luke 7: 1-10; Acts 15: 6-15, 19 One of “Robert’s Rules” was very much in the news this week, though I heard no newscaster make the connection. Can a simple majority stop debate and press its...

A Prophet-hood of All Believers

Texts on Pentecost Sunday, May 15, 2005Numbers 11: 24-30;  Acts 2: 1-21 If there’s a word yet unheard in this Pentecost story after so many seasons–a word still waiting for your attention after the birthday-of-the-church kazoos and party whistles are...

Let God Arise

(in the series Psalms in the Key of Easter) Texts for Sunday, May 8, 2005Psalm 68 1-10, 32-35; Luke 8: 19-25 We bring to a close today our Eastertide meditations on the Psalms. For the most part, the words we have attended to fed the soul as her fears and her hopes...