Tag: Bible

• …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. […]

  northernplainsanglican

  October 4, 2022

  Bible, Culture

  Bible, Life Style, Politics, Spirituality

• 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 […]

  northernplainsanglican

  September 6, 2022

  Bible, Church, Hope, Jesus, Worship

  Bible, Hope, Jesus Christ, Music

• 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 […]

  northernplainsanglican

  August 22, 2022

  Bible, Church, Jesus

  Bible, Bible Study, Christianity, Church, Clergy, Jesus

• Tears for Twitter?

  Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror. (Jeremiah 14:19) A few nights ago I was chatting with a seminary classmate, an Episcopal Priest bucking the trend of church decline with a fruitful […]

  northernplainsanglican

  July 26, 2022

  Bible, Culture, Jesus, Prayer

  Bible, Politics, Prophecy, Social Media