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Lay Down Your Sword
Lay down your sword, the Savior said; He healed the wounded with his word. Wisdom is more than weapons of war. Lay down your sword, the Savior said. With another two major mass shootings in the past week, both in California, the painf...
Read MoreThe Abundant Table: Taking the Next Step
One of Trinity Cathedral’s greatest gifts is our capacity to worship with a variety of hymn styles, soundscapes and instruments. Though we often divide ourselves into the services where we’re most likely spotted (“Tim is an 8 o’clocker,...
Read MoreThe Alchemies of Racecraft
Race doesn’t actually exist. Across the scientific and sociological spectrum, we see time and again that the idea of separate “races” has been a historical construct (aka fiction) of the colonial era, and that differences in skin and hai...
Read MoreSharing the Gift
Now that you’ve kindled the flame of God’s love at Christmastime, how will you carry it out into the world?
That’s the question we ask ourselves in the season of Epiphany. Of course, it’s early January so perhaps you’ve been thinking...
Read MoreOur Duty and Delight
The festival of Christmas Lessons and Carols begins with a bidding: Let it be our duty and delight to hear once more the message of the Angels, to go to Bethlehem and to see the Son of God lying in a manger . That bidding prayer reminds us ...
Read MoreThe Dean's Christmas Message
In the story if Jesus’ birth, time clearly matters but its meaning is hard to pin down. Of course, time comes up quite often: we know that Mary had reached the fullness of her nine-month pregnancy, and after a journey of several days she ...
Read MoreI Stand at the Door, and Knock
You are the doorkeeper of your soul, and how you mind that door shapes your whole spiritual life.
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