Sermon: Choices
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Meditations on Independence and Bondage for July 4th Weekend
Reflections as we approach July 4th weekend: who is free, who is not free? Themes of spiritual freedom versus civic freedom … pondering Abraham’s obedience to Yahweh, willingness to sacrifice a child, the merciful intervention that freed him from such an act. What is asked of us? What is offered to us? My father always[…]
Sermon: Wonder, Women, Wells
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Meditations on the story of Abraham, Ishmael & Hagar, Sarah & Isaac.
Meditations on summer solstice, mother & child abandoned in desert, miraculous rise of wellspring, hope in dry places: themes from the story of Abraham, Ishmael & Hagar, Sarah & Isaac as patriarchs and matriarchs of two faiths and two families, sundered. Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael — George Segal Wind, Water, Stone — Octavio Paz Translated[…]
Sermon: Spirit
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