2024

April 28: The Fifth Sunday of Easter

Alleluia! Christ is risen!Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia! “Whoever does not abide in meis thrown away like a branch and withers;such branches are gathered,thrown into the fire,and burned…”is not,despite what 19th and 20th CenturyAmerican evangelicals might have us thinkthe point of this passage.Jesus is at table with his friendswhen we drop in to John’s gospel

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April 14: The Third Sunday of Easter

(It’s on page 2 of your bulletin)Alleluia! Christ is risen!Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia! On Tuesday as Brandon and I watchedlast Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonightwith John OliverI was remindedof my favorite quote from NT Wright’sSurprised by Hope.Oliver spends half an hourtalking about where the chemicalsfor lethal injections by the federal governmentand some statescome

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