Reflections for

10th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Genesis 12:1-9; Psalm 33:1-12; (Hosea 5:15 - 6:6; Psalm 50:7-15;) Romans 4:13-25; Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26

From the CCblogs Network

Placing my trust in...?

Oct 17, 2012 by Tripp Hudgins

I'm thinking about Psalm 33. It's a good one. It begins with music and ends with this reminder that princes and horses are not actually running the show. I know. I was surprised as well.

Some days it might feel that way, mind you, but it's not really the way things are. I always want question that kind of logic...ontology again. If Congress reinstates the draft then they are running the show. There is this thing called "power" and some people have more than others in some contexts. How does an ontological theo-philosophical argument slow down Congress or what have you?

Features

What’s in a promise?

Living by covenant, not contract

Aug 02, 2012 by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Monastic vows sound familiar to anyone who's been to a wedding. In both marriage and celibacy, we promise to be faithful.

Books

Unclean

Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality

By Richard Beck

Unclean, by Richard Beck

Jun 27, 2012 reviewed by Amy Frykholm

A man stumbled into church drunk and bleeding from his hand. "I have hepatitis C," he said. I remembered this as I read Richard Beck's book Unclean.

Tribal Church

Would Jesus dispense contraceptive pills?

Feb 12, 2012 by Carol Howard Merritt

God is concerned with the health of women. God cares about teenagers who end up in a lifetime of poverty. Jesus healed the bleeding woman 2,000 years ago, and I think if he walked the streets today, he just might hand her a packet of pink pills. 

Features

Adopt a settlement

Christian Zionists and the West Bank

Dec 26, 2011 by Elizabeth Phillips

At American synagogues, Israeli settlement leader Ron Nachman gets a lot of questions. At churches he gets big checks.

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