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The Feast of Pentecost is one of the oldest feast days observed by the church.  In fact, it is the celebration of the birth of the church.  Unfortunately, our celebration has become little more than a...

Palm Sunday, we must admit, is a very strange worship service.  The service begins outside the church where we acknowledge, “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.”  But almost immediat...

The gospel lesson appointed for the first Sunday in Lent sets the stage for the season by recounting Jesus’ baptism and his experience in the wilderness.  Typically, when people recall Jesus’ baptism,...

Our religious understanding of Lent has become truncated — reduced to little more than a manufactured attempt to merit God’s grace.  The focus the church has espoused is one of penance which most ofte...