Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen.     The woman at the well.  The Samaritan woman.  Her name has been lost to us, and so we know her only in describing her.  And yet, what she has to teach us is nothing…

  Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen.     Today is a day when I wish we could all read and understand Biblical Greek, the original language of the Gospel of John, because our English translation just doesn’t cut it. Unless we read…

  Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen.     Have you ever wondered why we have Lent? In “Lenten Discipline”, her sermon on Luke’s version of the temptation of Jesus in the desert, Episcopal priest and scholar Barbara Brown Taylor gives a wonderful…

  Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen.       Advent is the beginning of the church year, and I love that the church turns the page on a fresh calendar as the hours of sunlight approach their nadir.  By the time we…