As we leave the tombs of quarantine, a return to normal would be a disaster unless we recognize that we are going back to a world desperately in need of healing. — Esau McCaulley, Unsettling Power Of the Easter Story. It is not often that you find an opinion piece about the Easter story in the NY Times, but this…
Tag: The Hubbell Pew
Holy Saturday
Another dear and wonderful friend sent me one of her father’s sermons. He used to use Christ’s last words as a basis for his Good Friday sermons. I used his sermon for my morning meditation and thought it appropriate for Holy Saturday’s Pew. Happy Easter one and all!!! Christ’s words: “Father into thy hands I…
The Promise
I came across the phrase “the Promise of Spring” the other day. What a wonderful phrase and image it provokes. Each year about this time the first signs of spring arrive. Trees bud, flowers emerge, the grass turns green, and an afternoon thunderstorm clears the air. We know that the cold and darkness of winter…
Palm Sunday
Although some athletes take taunting to extremes, it can be an effective strategy. It can throw an opponent of his or her game. Challenging authority is a form of taunting with the same effect. I love the scene in the movie Gandhi where they “walked to the sea and made salt.” Gandhi was challenging authority in a…
Lifted The Lowly
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly. — Luke 1:52. I am always drawn to the message in the Gospels about how Christ turns our world view on its end. The powerful will be brought down, the lowly will be elevated, and all the wonderful paradoxes contained in the…