Category: Speaking to the Soul

The Woman and the Pharisee and Me

You can feel the elitism in this gospel passage. A Pharisee has asked Jesus to his home for a meal. Maybe he is one of those liberal and tolerant Pharisees who is reaching out to the peasant rabbi Jesus. Jesus should feel himself honored…

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Who is Wisdom?

Daily Office Readings for April 28: Psalm 24, 29 (Morning) Psalm 8, 84 (Evening) Wisdom 7:22-8:1 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 Matthew 7:7-14 Wisdom 7:22-8:1 (NRSV) …for

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The sticking point

As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a

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The hard part

Reflection for 5th Sunday of Easter the Rev. David Sellery serves as an Episcopal priest that seeks to proclaim the good news of God in

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The Values of the Kingdom

Jesus tells us how to live within the values and vision of God’s Kingdom which he has inaugurated as Messiah. He tells us how to live as citizens of that Kingdom.

But more than that, we are told to live this way because this is how God is.

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Where is Justice?

If good people, righteous people can be unjustly accused and wrongly condemned to death, where is justice?

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Life After?

What is God’s answer to evil? One possible answer is that if there is life after death, God will right all wrongs in that afterlife.

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Three Prayers for Monday

We have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding…

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