Connecting metaphors is sort of like weaving on a loom. You need to make sure to connect your source strand with the new peg in order to create an image that speaks to people in their own context. For example, we can’t read the story of the “Good Samaritan”...
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy...
Beautiful Story Lectionary 10 June 2018 The Story of Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness (Genesis 16) The Tribes of Those Who Reached the Promised Land (Numbers 26) God’s Promise from the Wilderness (Deuteronomy 8) Those Who Settled in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 11) A...
Very few composers are credited with having invented a classical music form, but the one thing that many people have heard about John Field (1782 – 1837) is that he invented the nocturne. It isn’t true, of course: others before him (Haydn for one) had used the term...
ALL IN A SERMON ON PSALM 138 By Guest Writer Jesse Caldwell In the middle ages of his life, a friend of mine from law school met his soul mate and fell madly in love. They talked by phone every day, texted, and sent each other emails and social… To access...
