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Un-Decorating“Just kidding, mostly.” Is your street a little darker and less colourful since Monday? Have some of the giant, inflatable Christmas lawn decorations disappeared? We’ve noticed both things on our neighbourhood dog walks this week. It was still Christmassy up…
The Mood of Christmas“It is an iridescence of sheer delight…” As Christmas week goes on, and people make various connections with friends, or families, or social gatherings, I offer these words from one of my very favourite theologians, the Rev.…
Yr B ~ Christmas 2 ~ John 1:1-14 The world has moved on, and it probably feels a bit odd to us, but we’re still in the season of Christmas in church. There are 12 days of Christmas, after all,…
Yr B ~ Advent 4 ~ Matthew 1:18-25 We’ve all seen dozens of movies or Christmas pageants in which the story of Jesus’ conception is portrayed, and just about all of them show Mary, filled with angst, coming to Joseph…
Christmas is Cancelled“Let there be peace on earth!” As we ponder the arrival of the “babe of Bethlehem” so long ago, I invite you to prayerfully read this story about the children of Bethlehem, today. Gaza and the West Bank…
Yr B ~ A3 ~ Luke 1:46-55 [Luke 1:46-55 – a paraphrase]And Mary sang, “My soul resonates and reverberates with God’s amazing love and my spirit rejoices in God, for God’s Spirit fills those who are humble enough to receive…
Hollywood Christmas“Coming to a theatre near you…” The Christmas season always lays on an unreasonable and idealized set of images. We watch all the Christmas movies, and specials, and we love them, yet we come away with a vision of…
Smelling“It feels like a blessing, because it is.” It wasn’t very auspicious or glamourous, but it did feel like a small miracle at the time. I got Covid for the second time near the end of October (lucky me). Immediately…
Yr B ~ A2 ~ Mark 1:1-8 You all know the song called “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, right? If you totalled up all the gifts of all the days, including the repetitions, you’d have 364 gifts! Anyone care to…
Yr A ~ A1 ~ Isaiah 2:1-5 We first encountered the concept of an Advent Conspiracy back in 2010 when we did our first well-digging project. I thought it was time we revisited that original concept and see what it…