Tag: Bible
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…by his faith…
I imagined that decades of Holocaust documentaries, dramas, books and my own visits to Dachau and Yad Vashem had me innoculated against strong emotional reactions to presentations about the Shoah. I was wrong. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein present a jarring look at the Holocaust in a global and in particular American context. […]
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Christmas in September
Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. (Luke 13:24) I work on Sundays and can’t get to services, but I do listen to recorded sermons when I’m able. I’ve been blessed by preachers opening up these hard verses. “Agonizing” to enter through […]
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Shut the Front Door
After hearing yesterday’s Gospel, which included Jesus’ imperative to, Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able (Luke 13:24), I bumped into a correlation in the ever scary (for clergy) Matthew 23, But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom […]