It is late spring, and the sun is up at 5 am. This morning, I was up at six, and putting the first load of the multiple weekend clothes wash on the line. The sky is clear, and despite the joke that "if you don't like the weather in Dunedin wait 15… Read More

Now the first part of this text is Jesus moving out of metaphor. He tells us not to despise the little ones, but instead remember that the children, the slow, the crippled, the frail are of great worth for Christ, and they may have more advocates… Read More

I am coming of a long clinical day. I have had to deal with the consequences of false memories -- caused in many ways. Of people who are guilty or shamed because they have a clear memory of events. That. did. not. happen. This world is fallen, and… Read More

This is a very short passage. It's about discretion, choosing when to fight and when to just let thing slide. It's about choosing not to be arrogant, and not to give offense -- when the other does not have a right to demand what they are asking.

Matthew…

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One of the things that we have to do, as Christians, is deal with the truth. For the truth is often the last thing we want to read. It is often the last thing we want to hear. Let's consider the second passage first: Jesus just tells his… Read More

Doris Lessing died today at age 94. She was and is one of the better novelists of the 20th century, who among other things was not that prissy. She wrote literary novels, beloved by the feminists, and then wrote good Science Fiction. And she did… Read More

Today we have one of those passages that is an inspiration for artists. We get a glimpse of heaven. And then Jesus gets off the mountain and goes back to doing his duty.

Matthew 17:1-13

¹Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James…

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