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They’re officially over on Monday, at least according to one calendar. Other sources will suggest that they ended this past week, while those who put together the fabled King James Version of the Bible in 1611 suggested that the forty-day … Continue reading →

Those who follow such things will tell you that in many parts of the wider church May 31 will be celebrated as “Trinity Sunday.” For after remembering the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost last week, it’s only appropriate to … Continue reading →

The name itself comes from the Greek word meaning “fiftieth,” for in the agricultural calendar of the Hebrews it was seven weeks after Passover that the “Feast of Weeks” was observed, marking the end of the barley harvest and the … Continue reading →

If Webster is right, then the proposal announced this week by the Connectional Table of The United Methodist Church, a group of fifty or so folks charged with shepherding the vision of our denomination, is not really the compromise that they are … Continue reading →

Some would say it’s the sound of spring, the low but ubiquitous roar that rises up from city parks and sandlots all across the land. For along with the crisp crack of the bats–or the sad swish of a strikeout–from … Continue reading →

It was another one of those festivals for which the ancient Romans were so famous…sort of like a New Orleans Mardi Gras and a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade all rolled into one. The Lupercalia ceremony itself was a fairly peculiar … Continue reading →

It was the legendary coach of the University of Texas Longhorns Darrell Royal who once observed that “three things can happen when you throw a football… and two of them are bad.”  And I suspect that Pete Carroll, the coach … Continue reading →

His gifts for oratory were so strong that people are said to have wept just hearing him pronounce the word “Mesopotamia.” For among his contemporaries, no one came even close to being as good in the pulpit as he did, … Continue reading →