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Stephen Colbert might have smiled and cried on Palm Sunday 33 AD

The popular Irish Catholic comedian Stephen Colbert often sets up frames of understanding as a part of his humor. He frames a situation and invites folks to look through the frame with new eyes as he smiles at the implications he does not name…and we laugh. The triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem … Continue reading

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Lent 2013: Temptation and Wilderness

Two weeks ago I had lunch with a friend. As we were talking, I mentioned that I was preaching that Sunday. Her response was ‘Lent 1, of course the temptation.’ And then she reflected how she had heard a speaker once who connected the temptation and the Lord’s prayer. We … Continue reading

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