”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Even if your knowledge of Charles Dickens stops at the Muppets’ Christmas Carol (one of my favorites, I confess) you might also have heard that quote. It’s the opening words of a Tale of Two Cities (the cities being Paris and London). The […]
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Jeremiah is known as the prophet of doom and gloom – and there is plenty of doom and gloom in his writing. It was not an easy time for the Israelites. But it’s not all doom and gloom – in today’s reading we hear Jeremiah foretelling a new start, another covenant: I will place my
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The Book of Chronicles gives us a grand sweep of history, with the many times the people of God messed up, and in today’s reading ending with a restart coming from completely outside their control, driven by a foreign emperor. Following this Paul and John bring that same storyline closer to us as individuals –
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Today we hear John’s account of Jesus throwing the traders out of the Temple area. We probably associate this incident with Jesus’ final arrival in Jerusalem shortly before his death. The other evangelists do indeed position it at that time. But John treats it differently – he sees a different significance in this event. John
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