Gospel
Beginning Lent
Jesus doesn’t like hypocrites. Who does? When we read the Gospel that always begins Lent, advising us to avoid the piety of hypocrites, we’re all
March 2, 2017
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Jesus doesn’t like hypocrites. Who does? When we read the Gospel that always begins Lent, advising us to avoid the piety of hypocrites, we’re all
A new year, a new topic The Rector’s Forum meets on Sundays at 9:00, discussing all manner of topics. In 2017 we begin with a
New Year’s Resolutions–yearly promises to improve, usually forgotten by February–could this secular tradition to build our spiritual lives? At Trinity, we can, using our four
The supposed War on Christmas arrived early this year, as did all the commercial Christmas decorations. This fight, together with the hyper-commercialization of this season,
It’s over. Some of us are thrilled or cautiously optimistic. Others react with anger and grief. Everyone seems a bit stunned. What now? We could
Here’s some Biblical advice no one ever follows, taken from Sunday’s readings: Avoid wrangling over words, which does no good but only ruins those who
The Good Samaritan–now here’s a Bible story anyone can understand! Jesus’ story of the stranger who does the right thing is so well-known, there are
What would you say is the overall point of the Bible? Let’s be careful how we answer that question, because too often we expect the
I did an Internet search this Monday morning of the word “Easter.” The first thing that came up was a Wikipedia definition, stating that Easter
Do the words rational and Christianity even belong in the same sentence? After all, by believing in Christianity (or any religion), aren’t we relying on myths and
