Tag: Christmas
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A Dolphin Leap of Faith
Being on holiday means being in unfamiliar rooms and staring at unknown pictures on the wall. I had seen the Talbot collection print of a leaping dolphin before, but never attended to the inscription underneath. “Delphinus Delphis” got me wondering why the common dolphin would be named after a Greek site associated with the famous…
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Were those camel riders “Wise Guys”?
(I am captivated by and participating in the beauty of Port Alfred in this Christ Mass week and so too lazy to write a full Blog) Here is my micro sketch of my sermon for Epiphany this Sunday. I have been contemplating how the Magi contrast with the rash of arrogant religious Wise Guys out…
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Particles in the Cosmic Crib – Christ Mass Day
John 1:1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light…
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Can we trust these foreigners? Epiphany
Matthew 2:1-12 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.” When King Herod…
The Listening Hermit 