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November Table Church -Thresholds & Thin Places
Sometimes something shivers us — a sunset, a single wildflower, a child playing in the park or in the street, a thousand scenes, a thousand times. That shiver is awe, wonder, a primal feeling, a sense of overwhelming meaning and mystery at the same time. Ted Loder in Loaves, Fishes and Leftovers All through…
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On the Edge of Thanksgiving
As this day closes may you go gently quiet prayers in your pockets, perhaps overflowing. Small blessings, a touch, a voice a memory, beauty, scattered on the border of daylight and darkness. May they unfold in dreams fertile with Grace. And if despair has been caught in the creases of this day may it be honoured,…
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Table Church ~ Beginning
Always, we begin again. Benedict When I was imagining how the frame of these gatherings might be built, I thought of the flavour I taste in each month. In September, even though I’ve been out of school for a while, I still taste beginnings. The fall crisp gives me an energy boost and I am…
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What’s Table Church and Why
Why Table Church? To be vital in our living and our dying as individuals and as congregations we need to practice our faith close to the ground, in the ordinary doings of day to day life. The table is one of those places.
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For those who fish ~ blessing, song, and ritual
Blessings for those who fish at the opening of the season.
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A Pentecost Hymn for Times of Pandemic
On Pentecost they gatheredwhile we are still apart;we dedicate the distance,we hold it in our hearts.
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Tech, Touch, and Thomas
“I’ll post a sermon on Thomas”, I said to my congregation – “a sermon from another time which moves in and out of the text in a more conventional way.” But for now there’s something else. Because Thomas’s is speaking clearly to me in this moment of a yearning that instructs us.
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If, but . . . and in between
Last Sunday we just touched this text and thinking of it during the week, I recalled this sermon I wrote several years ago. It asks a question pertinent to this time of pandemic this time that troubles us mightily.
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