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  • Someday I Will Be Doing Research Again
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  • Hills of the Horizon: The Past is Another Country
    The problem with extrapolation from history is that nothing is testable. The evolution of a religion over time is not a predictable and easily comprehensible thing, where we can look at a point in time and say, "It was like this then, so it would be like that now." The process of deciding what needs […]

Sermon/Reflection delivered 16 March, 2025 at First Parish

Like a breath I knew would come, I reach for a new day

“In the beginning, the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”

The ancient Egyptians described the potentiality before time as “before there were two things”, and they described that primordial state as being formless, […]

March 16th, 2025 | Category: Sunday Reflection, Symbolism | Comments are closed

I Actually Got to Go to the Service Today

The thing about teaching Sunday school is of course that it happens on Sunday, and more relevantly, at the same time as the service, so my church life this year has been, largely, ‘go to the announcements and first hymn, then head to class’, which means I haven’t had things to say about sermons.

But […]

January 19th, 2020 | Category: Sunday Reflection | Comments are closed

Lost At Sea

I lit a candle at the service today for Eri – who commented here as Crowess.

The sea is so very big, and my boat is so very small.

— Eriol (@eriolcaw) December 27, 2019

I said I lost a friend suddenly, and I find myself contemplating euphemisms; on her blog, when […]

January 6th, 2020 | Category: Sunday Reflection | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Other Dancer

(Welp, I’ve been pretty pants at updates for a while, haven’t I? Let’s fix that.)

Today’s service involved a sextet of dancers.

As I watched them perform, I was particularly drawn to watching one of them, whose brow was slightly furrowed with intense concentration as she paced out the steps on bandage-wrapped feet. Hers were […]

March 17th, 2019 | Category: Sunday Reflection | Comments are closed

Writing a Thing

Doesn’t really count as either “Sunday Reflection” or “Wolf-Work” but I’m gonna tag ’em in anyway: two Sundays ago the student minister gave her first sermon, which included a comment about evangelical universalism as a concept. Which gave me the opportunity to introduce someone else to Thiess of Kaltenbrun and the werewolves as those who […]

October 10th, 2018 | Category: Politics, Sunday Reflection, Wolf-Work | Comments are closed
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