August 22 Ordinary 21B Psalm 84
In Psalm 84, an expectant swallow makes her nest in the temple.
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August 15 Ordinary 20B 1 Kings 2 10 12 3 3 14
Solomon has everything—and still, he seeks transformation.
August 8 Ordinary 19B 2 Samuel 18 5 9 15 31 33
David, Absalom, and the dangers of “hanging between heaven and earth”
August 1 Ordinary 18B John 6 24 35
There’s an old XKCD comic strip in which creator Randall Munroe explains why he tries not to make fun of people when they admit they don’t know something. “If I make fun of people,” he writes, “I train them not to tell me when they have those moments. And I miss out on the fun”—on the delight in others’ discovery.
Is there no other prophet to consult
Amid our dying empires and institutions, we might recall the story of King Ahab.