The story of
God and us
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Fight, flight, freeze, fawn, flop, forget-about-it…
Luke 1.23-45
Read more: Fight, flight, freeze, fawn, flop, forget-about-it…A sermon on Luke 1:23-45 for Kensington Community Church on the second Sunday of Advent. This sermon series is structured after the theme “How does a weary world rejoice?” from A Sanctified Art. You’re probably already familiar with the concept of instinctive threat responses—the reactions our bodies choose between when we are afraid. Back in my day,…
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All the things I’m scared of
Luke 1.5-22
Read more: All the things I’m scared ofI am someone who is scared, a lot, of a lot of things. I am scared of taking out the trash at night. I am scared of my car making weird noises. I am scared of checking my to do list. I am scared of notifications in the FollowMyHealth app from my doctor’s office. I…
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Fruitcake and the family of God
Acts 10.9–48
Read more: Fruitcake and the family of GodIt’s an imperfect analogy, but it makes me think about when I first started working here last summer and learned all about our practices around Dia de los Muertos and our favorite hymns and the hymns which were very much not our favorite and the parts of our order of service and prayers that were…
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Bidirectional memory
Acts 1.6-11, 22-24
Read more: Bidirectional memoryDía de los Muertos and All Souls Day are two holidays that occupy the same day on our calendars and share meanings that are quite similar, even if there’s an important demarcation point between the two. I think the Catholic writer Joel Schorn put it best when he talked about the two holidays as ones…