Posts tagged with: Mardi Gras

A Time For Fasting But Not Today

Shrove Tuesday   (Cued up to amazing music ministry before sermon) Isaiah 25:1-10; Luke 5:29-37 (Gafney)   Laissez les bons temps rouler! Let the good times roll!   In the Name of God who is Life, Liberation and Love. Jesus was posted up with the party people. They were getting their eat and their drink...... Read More

Ritualizing Bathsheba’s Rape

In the powerful image by Pauline Williamson (who creates as Sea), Bathsheba sits with her dead or dying child produced from David’s rape while he prays for the child. See her own interpretive work on this passage here. It is Shrove Tuesday, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when Christians traditionally went to confession and were...... Read More

Mardis Gras on the Mountaintop: The Transfiguration

Luke 9:28 … Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. [Audio link to sermon available here] Now, let us pray: Holy One of Old, open our eyes that we may see. Amen. Luke 9:28 Now about eight days after saying, “23…If any want to become my...... Read More