Suffering and the Purposes of God
In the last post, Joseph, the favorite son of Jacob, had been sold by his brothers to Midianite traders. The jealous siblings dipped his...
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fathermark
Jan 17, 20204 min read
Of Pain and Family
It can’t be helped, I suppose. Families incubate and perpetuate their brokenness. Until we are finally and fully healed, we will hurt...
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fathermark
Jan 2, 20203 min read
Of Cake and the Cosmos: Or, Attaching the Right Questions
For the last few years I have been in the habit of reading through the entire Bible each year. It’s January, so I have started again and...
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fathermark
Dec 28, 20192 min read
Incarnation
In the traditional Christmas Day Gospel reading, John 1:1-18, we have those remarkable words about the Word. In the beginning was the...
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fathermark
Dec 21, 20192 min read
Shepherd Guardians
This is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard…. (What Child Is This?) Confession on the front end that this is something of a sentimental...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Mar 18, 20194 min read
Learning to be Sinners - Together
He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. In spite of corporate worship, times of prayer, fellowship, and even ministry together,...
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Fr Mark
Mar 13, 20193 min read
The Community of the Church
In my last post, I spoke of the superficialities of our post-modern culture and the breakdown in true community. Of course, the...
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Fr Mark
Mar 5, 20192 min read
Ghosts in the Machine
We are ghosts in the machine. We inhabit a soft reality. Call it the way of the world in the wake of modernism – or Post-modernism....
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Fr Mark
Oct 3, 20182 min read
Infinitudes
Why was it supposedly necessary for Jesus to die on the cross for the sins of mankind? Couldn't God just let us pay for our own moral f
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Fr Mark
Aug 30, 20182 min read
Jealous Demons and Prayer in Marriage
Lectionaries have their strengths and weaknesses. On the plus side, they make you read parts of Scripture you might not ever read or...
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Fr Mark
Aug 24, 20182 min read
Relentless
I wonder how many lovers have come to the point of breakup in their relationship, only to find a rising emotional heartbreak within them...
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Fr Mark
Jun 12, 20182 min read
Pieces and Crabs
A recent staff retreat forced (I am using that word a bit loosely obviously) us to spend some time walking the beach. We were supposed...
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Fr Mark
May 18, 20183 min read
The Story that Haunts Our Stories
Up front, I will simply state that I believe in the whole metanarrative bit – the overarching story that explains our past and present,...
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Fr Mark
Apr 21, 20183 min read
Understanding Life - at least in part
There are several places in the Bible where the choice between life and death is set before people. It’s there in the Garden of Eden...
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Fr Mark
Mar 28, 20183 min read
Touch and Authority
Touch. We all need it. Some more, some less, but life without it just isn’t life. We all need physical touch, human society,...
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Fr Mark
Mar 21, 20183 min read
Graves of Craving
It’s an odd practice we have of naming streets after people or historic landmarks. Or naming patches of earth after events that happened...
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Fr Mark
Mar 13, 20183 min read
The love life of a really old couple
Okay, it’s not nice to call people old – especially “really old.” I don’t know how old they were, but they were no spring chickens. The...
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Fr Mark
Mar 6, 20182 min read
A Royal Priesthood
I am wading through Leviticus again. What a tough book to connect with! – at any level. I remember a few years ago being asked by a...
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Fr Mark
Mar 1, 20183 min read
As Things Above
A moment of confession: I tend to glaze over a bit when reading through the last chapters of the book of Exodus as the details for...
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