How Hunger Helped Us Here

by | Sep 25, 2005 | Uncategorized

(next in the series Lessons in the Beginning) Texts on Sunday, September 25, 2005Genesis 41:1–42:5; Luke 9: 13-17 “There is no way you can interpret your own dreams,” a psychotherapist once told me. “They are information in coded form, tales...

Every Round Goes Higher, Higher

by | Sep 18, 2005 | Uncategorized

(next in the series Lessons in the Beginning) Texts on Sunday, September 18, 2005Genesis 38: 1-30; Matthew 28: 16-20 There’s a phrase people throw about as if it were gospel: The end doesn’t justify the means. No? It had better! When people invoke that...

The God Behind God

by | Sep 4, 2005 | Uncategorized

(next in the series Lessons in the Beginning) Texts on Sunday, September 4, 2005Genesis 18: 17-33; Luke 13: 1-5 In the meeting room at Attica prison twice each week, fifteen to twenty inmates sit down with four or five volunteers from CEPHAS for a conversation. When I...