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“Our life and our death is with our neighbor.” — St. Antony the Great of the Desert. Episcopal Priest in the Tennessee foothills of the Smokey Mountains.
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Is the Lord among us or not? (opens the original)
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I think we’ve all been to Rephidim, that dry place of thirst and desperation the Israelites found themselves out in the wilderness. Certainly, most of us have experienced being hangry, short-tempered from thirst or hunger, snapping at whoever or whatever happens to cross you. We remember the weeks after Helene, when neighbors around Erwin and Asheville had lost everything and were in desperate need of water, food, and safety. Many of us have sat beside a hospital bed where someone we love could
Scandalized by Grace (opens the original)
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If you’ve turned on the radio or TV or even Social Media lately, it won’t take long to hear about what we’ve all been feeling at the gas pump and grocery store lately. The narrative of inflation, high prices, shortages of resources we hear is only heightened and enhanced by the upcoming elections.But today, Jesus invites us to imagine a world that isn’t driven by a notion of scarcity, where even those who are chosen last are included, where we don’t just have to get what’s mine. My stuff. What I
Ending the Cycle of Violence (opens the original)
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Sermon – Proper 19A – 2026Matthew 18:21-35It’s been interesting to reflect on our scripture lessons today in light of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon. Looking back through the past two and a half decades of the subsequent forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, in the thousands of lives of first responders and others who breathed the toxic air at Ground Zero, and of course the nearly 3000 who died the morning of the attacks. In preparation for t
On Holy Ground (opens the original)
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Most of us don’t often give much thought about the ground under our feet. It’s so solid we take it for granted; it is the ground on which our homes are founded, the dirt in which we plant our gardens, this fixed and permanent thing we stand our whole lives on, solid ground until it’s not. Most of us remember that November night in 2016, when hurricane-force winds drove wildfire over the ridge from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park into Gatlinburg; by morning fourteen people were dead, and
A Conspiracy of Women (opens the original)
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The water of the Nile was warm when the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe, the light still low and golden across the translucent water. She was a daughter of the court, beginning an otherwise unremarkable day with her usual ablutions, her attendants strung out along the edge of the water. And there she saw it, and perhaps heard it. A basket, low in the reeds near the bank where the water is shallow, sealed over with pitch, floating there quite out of place.She sent her maid to lift it out,
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