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Time to think and pray
Image by Fr Antunes via Flickr Hello dear friends: Thank you for dropping by. I am away from blogging for one month to focus on a couple of life direction questions. Please keep me on your reader … more →
The Least, First
Time to think and pray
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Monte wrote 2 months ago: Image by Fr Antunes via Flickr Hello dear friends: Thank you for dropping by. I am away from bloggin … more →
In it but not of it (sermon for May 24)
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Monte wrote 6 months ago: An older version - with the same problem! My first regular job was in a small jewelry store in Burli … more →
The End of Exclusion (Sermon of 8 Feb 09)
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Monte wrote 8 months ago: Image by Victor V via Flickr With the casting out of the demon on that first Sabbath afternoon of Je … more →
Let's chill. We're both partly wrong. (Sermon of 1 Feb 09)
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Monte wrote 10 months ago: In the aftermath of World War II, many European intellectuals (later joined by Americans and many o … more →
Readings for Sunday, November 2, 2008
Monte wrote 1 year ago: Proper 26 November 2, 2008 Matthew 23:1-12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13; Micah 3:5-12; Psalm 43 Matthew 2 … more →
The main thing [readings for Sunday, October 26]
Monte wrote 1 year ago: Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln famously said (or is famously said to have said) that if he could fi … more →
Give to Caesar what's his (readings for Sunday, Oct 19)
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Monte wrote 1 year ago: The Roman Imperial Denarius I hear from zealous anti-tax folks from time to time, who usually pop by … more →
How odd the Bible is. (readings for Sunday, October 11)
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Monte wrote 1 year ago: The oddness of the Bible—its miles-away foreign-ness—is, perhaps, too little allowed. Take this week … more →
Out from bigotry (sermon for August 17, 08)
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Monte wrote 1 year ago: And a bit about white privilege … Isaiah 56:1, 6-8 1 This is what the LORD says: “Mainta … more →
He doesn't even hate his enemies! (Readings for 21 Sep 08)
Monte wrote 1 year ago: Steinhardt: Jonah has pity on the gourd The other thing the whale swallows in the book of Jonah is t … more →
Is Jesus MIA? (Readings for September 14, 2008)
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Monte wrote 1 year ago: Jesus Christ is, of course, what’s missing from Christianity. We have positions aplently— … more →
Ramadan greetings
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Monte wrote 1 year ago: To my friends who are Muslims: May mercy, forgiveness, and salvation be yours in abundance this Rama … more →
Stories for angry religious people (readings for Sep. 16, 2007)
Monte wrote 2 years ago: Once again, Jesus has been devoting his attention to “a lot of men and women of doubtful reput … more →
Unrespectable Jesus (sermon of Sep 2, 2007)
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Monte wrote 2 years ago: Preaching this sermon was a wondrous experience for me; I learned so much, and people responded so s … more →
Figure the cost (readings for Sunday, Sep. 9, 2007)
Monte wrote 2 years ago: Proper 18 (23); September 9, 2007 Luke 14:25-33; Philemon 1-21; Jeremiah 18:1-11; Psalm 139:1-6,13-1 … more →
Jim Wallis in Iowa City Sept. 13
Monte wrote 2 years ago: Stephen at Eastern Iowa Emergent Cohort writes: Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners and author [of the … more →
Leaders and humility (Readings for Sunday, Sept. 2)
Monte wrote 2 years ago: Proper 17 (22), September 2, 2007 Luke 14:1,7-14; Hebrews 13:1-8,15-16; Jeremiah 2:4-13; Psalm 81:1, … more →
Jesus and the rule-keepers clash again (readings for August 26, 07)
Monte wrote 2 years ago: Proper 16 (21): August 26, 2007 Luke 13:10-17; Hebrews 12:18-29; Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6 Have … more →
On not giving up (worship gathering of August 19, 2007)
Monte wrote 2 years ago: Proper 15 (20); August 19, 2007 Isaiah 5:1-7; Psalm 80:1-2,8-19; Hebrews 11:29-12:2; Luke 12:49-56 T … more →
