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Jules' Wandering Weblog

English - Spirituality, Social Justice, Personal Reflection
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 9M ago

What kind of gospel is this?

Let’s be honest with one another. I hate the fact that this is the lectionary text this week. It’s a terrible story. Very un-gospel-y. It makes Jesus look like a jerk. It’s confusing, and full of what seem to be secret metaphors I don’t immediately understand. It feels incomplete. It makes me stop a
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 9M ago

What to do with 5 loaves and 2 fish?

In my family, I’m always known as the one who can be counted on to pack enough food. I’ve been on trips where I’ve packed entire meals into my purse – my friends call it the feed bag – so that I wouldn’t have to worry about whether (or where) we’d be eating. I remember [...]
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 10M ago

Hello, my name is Julia, and I’m a sinner.

Hi, my name is Julia, and I’m a sinner. I can’t tell you how often I want to say that sentence in my day to day life.  Hi, my name is Julia, and I can’t do everything right.  Hi, my name is Julia, and I really have trouble asking for help.  Hi, my name is [...]
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 10M ago

Not Quite What I Was Planning

There are stories everywhere around us.  From the moment we slide into this world, we hear stories – about what happened before we were born, about our parents, about our grandparents.  fairy tales, children’s books, bible stories. As we get older, we hear histories in school – we learn from the rad
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 10M ago

A New Beatitude

Someone once said, a preacher only ever preaches what she herself needs to hear.  Today is definitely one of those days – we’re going to leave the lectionary and get back to basics for the week.  I’ll tell you why. This evening I will make a pilgrimage.  Some of you will join me in this [...]
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 10M ago

Can These Bones Yet Live?

In 1987 I was six years old.   You could say 1987 was the best year for movies – after all, The Princess Bride stormed theaters (and castles), letting loose rodents of unusual size, Andre the Giant, and mai-wage on the American public.  The hero, Wesley – the one who would rescue the princess Butter
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 10M ago

Back to Basics: The Gospel and the Lorax

  I was lucky growing up to have lots of books in the house.  From the time I was tiny, I played with books, even before I understood what they were.   By the time I learned to read, I was in love with stories of all kinds, Dr. Seuss’s rhymes, Aesop’s fables, C.S. Lewis’ [...]
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 10M ago

Burning Bushes and Burning Hearts

I’ve been thinking a lot about falling in love lately.  About what it’s like, about the feeling of it.  Isn’t it a mystery, the way you meet someone and, perhaps suddenly but maybe over time, your eyes are opened to that person.  You see a person – and really, they are probably just like anyone [...
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 10M ago

God’s Heart for Justice

I really struggled with this sermon this week.  One of the reasons was that in my “day-job,” my primary appointment as a United Methodist deacon, I work with a non-profit who’s mission it is to achieve affordable, accessible health care to all Ohioans.  If any of you have been within ten feet of a t
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Jules' Wandering Weblog · 10M ago

Going Back to Our Basics: The Runaway Bunny

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away.  So he said to his mother, “I am running away.”  “If you run away,” said his mother, “I will run after you.  For you are my little bunny.” But the little bunny said, “If you run after me… I will become a fish… and [...]
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