Lent 2017: Week 2
Week 2: Stillness exercise
March 6, 2017
I simply cannot concentrate. But perhaps complex inattention is more fruitful (although I should not be thinking in productive terms) than a rudimentary focus. It is hard to consider infinity...
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Week 2: Gospel reading
March 6, 2017
Matthew 13 New International Version (NIV) The Parable of the Weeds Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his...
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Week 2: Prey
March 6, 2017
Every Christian is a heretic at heart. That is a true, if theatrical, way of stating the obvious fact that all of us have our scriptural preferences. We make selections...
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Week 2: Pray
March 6, 2017
Butterflies, God bless them, are deeply attracted to the smell of human urine. That is not, of course, the first word in the sciences of the botany and/or biology of...
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