Tag: writing
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On an Easter Sermon
It is Easter. Every church I have attended has read John 20 at the climax of their Easter service. John 20 is the story of how Mary Magdalene found Jesus’s tomb empty, beginning a cascade of revelations. First, Mary Magdalene gathers Simon Peter and a famously unnamed disciple to see the empty tomb. But they…
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On the Shoebody Bop
It is the nineteenth of April, the rule of law is collapsing in America, and all I can think about is the Shoebody Bop. If you haven’t seen it, the Shoebody Bop is an animated sequence on YouTube featuring a group of blue-clad cultists on a riverbank as one man, presumably their leader, repeated bops…