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» 2015 » February The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
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The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. Biblical Scholar, Seminary Professor, Episcopal Priest. Priest & Preacher. Travel & Appearances: Community & Congregational Presentations. Archive for February, 2015. The Color Purple: A Lenten Sermon. As we begin our Lenten pilgrimage, my theme is the borrowed title of Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple. Was accompanied by ‘the silken, sad rustling of each purple curtain.’ Gelett Burgess ‘never saw a purple cow.’ Alfred Lord Tennyson mused on the ‘pilots of the pur...Or do...
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» Spike’s Tut: An Honest Fiction The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
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The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. Biblical Scholar, Seminary Professor, Episcopal Priest. Priest & Preacher. Travel & Appearances: Community & Congregational Presentations. Spike’s Tut: An Honest Fiction. Disclaimer: I have no hate-snark for Tut. Read at your own risk! I first became aware of Spike’s miniseries TUT. In two parts), and rolled the dice. 8211; and props. When the director described the storyline as “a life Tut could have lived rather than the life he lived” I was intrigued. Was riveting as High Pr...
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» Preaching A Feminist Faith From Priscilla’s Epistle The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
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The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. Biblical Scholar, Seminary Professor, Episcopal Priest. Priest & Preacher. Travel & Appearances: Community & Congregational Presentations. Preaching A Feminist Faith From Priscilla’s Epistle. Download the audio mp3. Http:/ www.wilgafney.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/WilGafneyPreaching08182013.mp3. A great cloud of witnesses surrounds us. Let us pray: Holy One of Old, open our eyes that we may see. Amen. 8230; And continued in v 3, By faith we understand. I don’t know ab...
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» Bathsheba & Black Lives Matter The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
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The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. Biblical Scholar, Seminary Professor, Episcopal Priest. Priest & Preacher. Travel & Appearances: Community & Congregational Presentations. Bathsheba & Black Lives Matter. Our first lesson could easily be and should be translated:. David sent emissaries to kidnap Bathsheba and she came to him then he raped her. Then she cleansed herself from her defilement and returned to her house. After some time] the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, I am pregnant. That’s what the...
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» She Washed My Feet The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
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The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. Biblical Scholar, Seminary Professor, Episcopal Priest. Priest & Preacher. Travel & Appearances: Community & Congregational Presentations. She Washed My Feet. 13 You call me Teacher and Lord and you are right, for that is what I am. 14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. This entry was posted on 21 July 2015. It was filed under blog.
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» 2015 » July The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
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The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. Biblical Scholar, Seminary Professor, Episcopal Priest. Priest & Preacher. Travel & Appearances: Community & Congregational Presentations. Archive for July, 2015. Spike’s Tut: An Honest Fiction. Disclaimer: I have no hate-snark for Tut. Read at your own risk! I first became aware of Spike’s miniseries TUT. In two parts), and rolled the dice. Was riveting as High Priest Amun; I was never clear to what degree he believed his own faith. *[Siddig’s glorious birth name is:...Lastly,...
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» 2015 » August The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
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The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. Biblical Scholar, Seminary Professor, Episcopal Priest. Priest & Preacher. Travel & Appearances: Community & Congregational Presentations. Archive for August, 2015. Love Sex. Money. Power. Death. Holy One of Old, open our eyes that we may see and our ears that we may hear. Amen. Adam and Eve by James Lewis; Song of Solomon by He Qi]. God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality. The Song of Songs is a celebration of erotic love, by which I mean explicitly sex. Not surprisingly its literal...
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» 2015 » June The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
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The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. Biblical Scholar, Seminary Professor, Episcopal Priest. Priest & Preacher. Travel & Appearances: Community & Congregational Presentations. Archive for June, 2015. When You Slaughter Us You Slaughter God. We should not have to tell you, we should not have to teach you, that we are the very image of God. You should see God when you see us. But you worship a pale deformed perversion of God that mirrors your biases. When you slaughter us you slaughter God. 400 years of white male a...
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» 2015 » January The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
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The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. Biblical Scholar, Seminary Professor, Episcopal Priest. Priest & Preacher. Travel & Appearances: Community & Congregational Presentations. Archive for January, 2015. Turn That Motha Out. Image of Assyrians torturing Israelites from Lachish, 6th century BCE. Turn That Motha Out. In other words, God said, Turn that motha out. Let us pray: May God who is Majesty, Mercy and Mystery speak words of life, hope and healing through these words. Amen. Anybody ever count you out? If you t...
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