Apr 1, 2022 | Lectionary Series, lectionary series, Weekly Words
Defy Gravity! It is by far my family’s favorite Broadway production. We have enacted it for COVID birthday greetings, karaoke, and one-liners. It is the show Wicked. Telling the back story to The Wizard of Oz, it focuses on a green, female witch, Elphaba, who is made...
Mar 24, 2022 | +Lynn Brinkley, Lectionary Series, lectionary series, Weekly Words
You Do Not Receive Our Testimony John 3:11-17 (New Revised Standard Version) Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how...
Mar 17, 2022 | Lectionary Series, lectionary series, Weekly Words
Standing with Eve In the summer of 2020, life as I knew it ceased to exist. I confess to being somewhat slow to understand the magnitude of racial injustice in our country, even though I live just a few zip codes over from the city in the US with the highest rates of...
Mar 10, 2022 | Lectionary Series, lectionary series, Weekly Words
Psalm 92:1-5, 12-15 It is good to give thanks to the AGELESS GOD, to sing praises to you name Most High; to declare your faithful love in the morning, and your trustworthiness by night, upon the ten strings and the harp, upon the murmurings of the lyre. For you have...
Mar 4, 2022 | Lectionary Series, lectionary series, Weekly Words
Psalm 104: 14-15 (NRSV) You cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for people to use,to bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the human heart,oil to make the face shine, and bread to strengthen the human heart. Mark 19: 9-15 (NRSV)...