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Irrevrent: November 2016
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Sunday, November 27, 2016. Living in the light (or Repair Cafe). Isaiah 2: 1-5 ( The Message. New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE. November 27, 2016. Earlier this week a colleague of mine who pastors a church in New England. But then another friend posted this comment: “ To paraphrase my friend who is a former NYC prosecutor. It does not work that way, nor should it. Prosecution should NEVER be a popularity contest. It should be evidence driven, only. Turn the tables. How would that be? When Jesu...
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Irrevrent: May 2016
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Voice of reason/Enemy within. Proverbs 8: 1 – 21. New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE. May 22, 2016 – Trinity Sunday. Earlier this week I posted two questions on Facebook: where do you find wisdom for the living of your life and how do you define wisdom? Interestingly enough, the question about defining wisdom got more answers. Of course the wisest ones said that wisdom is realizing you don’t have it. Indeed this is the first step toward wisdom. And yet it...By Yann Martel:...
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Irrevrent: July 2016
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Sunday, July 31, 2016. Let go my ego! Ecclesiastes 1: 1-3, 12-14; 2: 18-23. New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE. July 31, 2016. Put us in touch with. The joy of your presence, mercy, and grace,. And let it disturb us to life. As much as an election or even a church can be about politics and policy, they can also about personalities. What if we took the word ‘vanity’ in the reading from Ecclesiastes and replaced it with the word ‘ego’? Ego of egos, says the Teacher, ego of egos! O God, grant us th...
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Irrevrent: January 2017
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Micah 6: 1-8; Matthew 5: 1-12. New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE. January 29, 2017. But I don’t want to be horrid or insensitive myself. So earlier this week I was speaking with some colleagues about how to reframe on one’s feet in a good way. One of them reminded me that oppressed groups have always done this with insults and slurs. More than anything else, it breaks my heart to listen to vitriol because I know I am in the presence of a wounded human being. When he s...
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Irrevrent: The color of debate
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017. The color of debate. Matthew 3: 1-2, 11-17. New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE. January 8, 2017. For about seven years I drove a 1995 Ford Escort sedan. It had the automatic seatbelts that everyone hated. It even had a sunroof. But the color seemed to defy definition in our family. It was a teal color, but David thought it was more green, while I thought it was more blue. We called it the color of debate because we never could agree. Who are God’s marginal people...
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Irrevrent: December 2015
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Monday, December 28, 2015. Cold feet, warm heart. Luke 2: 1 – 16. New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE. If Good King Wenceslas. What is interesting is that the king has no clue who this peasant is, but his servant does, even providing directions on how to find where he lives. The servant may have wished he didn’t open his mouth, because now both of them would be venturing out into the snow, walking somewhere between 2 ½ and 4 ½ miles to reach the peasant’s home. Becoming more human because of Jesu...
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Delaware Interfaith Power and Light. A RELIGIOIUS RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE. The History of IPL. New Castle County Congregations. Become a Member Congregation. The Climate Framework for Delaware. DeIPL works to address the causes and effects of climate change through our members, for whom we are eternally grateful. Please visit their web sites by clicking on their names. Delaware Interfaith Power and Light Congregational or institutional members:. Unitarian Universalist of Southern Delaware. Or contact ...
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Irrevrent: August 2016
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016. Luke 14: 1, 7-14. New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE. August 28, 2016. Hospitable God, you invite us to a life filled with good things,. In which the last may be first,. And the humble and the mighty trade places. Let us share your abundance with no fear of scarcity;. Let us greet strangers as angels you have sent! Send your Spirit now. So that we may find a place at your table. And welcome others with radical hospitality. 8212;adapted from a prayer by Christopher Ney.
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Irrevrent: March 2016
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016. In our end is our beginning. New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE. March 27, 2016 – Easter Sunday. The Good Friday/Easter story I want to share with you today is the story of the Leningrad Symphony, the 7. Leningrad had not only been seized by the German army but cut off: no food, no water for about. 900 days. After some months, the 7. Two women collect the remains of a dead horse for food, during the siege of Leningrad, 1941. Too much to bear. The goodness of human ...
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