Reflections for

First Sunday after Christmas, Dec 28, 2014

Isaiah 61:10-62:3; Psalm 148; Galatians 4:4-7; Luke 2:22-40

Poetry

Christmas Eve

Luke 2:35

Dec 07, 2012 by Jerry Walls

Adam’s rib was Christmas Eve
Foreshadow of a pierced side
Who pulling down forbidden fruit
Set fast in motion Yuletide.

Joseph’s bride was Second Eve
Endowed with gift of pierced soul
Who bowing down to own his will
Joined God in making wounded whole.

Faith Matters

After adoption

Jul 13, 2012 by M. Craig Barnes

My colleague's daughter has health problems and poor motor skills. She also has loving parents, a prayerful congregation and a devoted God.

American Soundings

In praise of snow

Feb 28, 2012 by Rodney Clapp

Snow can be tiresome, even deadly, but it can also be a sign of holiness and of hope.

Poetry

Pietà

Feb 02, 2012 by Maria Garriott

He roamed quarries at Carrara
caressing blocks of marble, tracing veins
like a blind man
to find the Virgin within. Here,
the limp arm hangs; here,
the bent head of the mother;
here, her murdered son.

He coaxed her from stone
chiseling in her face the memory of
Simeon's prophecy of a sword piercing her heart:
a wholly inadequate portent for this,
this hammer of death
harder than marble.

Editor's Desk

Beginnings and endings

Jan 25, 2012 by John M. Buchanan

After 48 years as a minister of word and sacrament, I will retire at the end of January.

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