Brian J. Walsh's Blog, page 21

Love, Knowing and the Washing of Feet

It’s all about love to the very end.

It’s all about a love that brings us to Holy Week.

It’s all about the end of love, the telos of love.

It’s all about the Lord of love,

kneeling before his disciples on Thursday evening,

and enthroned on a cross by Friday afternoon.

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Hold Fast to the Head

Hold fast to the head, and let your ethics flow from that.

Stay immersed in the covenant story

and your actions will be shaped by it.

Don’t need no baggage, don’t need no ticket,

just get on board.

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Kingdom Fruitfulness: A New Targum

This is the word of truth,

in a time of such ubiquitous deceit.

This is the word of truth,

that speaks power and life

in the face of repression and death.

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Jesus and the Festival of Hope

A reflection on Matthew 17:1-9 by Andrew Stephens-Rennie at Christ Church Cathedral’s St.

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Romans 12&13 Remixed: A Post-Inauguration Targum

Time is up for the oppressive laws of the state,

so obey the law of love.

Time is up for the empire,

so live in the Kingdom.

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God on the Loose

Memory can trap us.

Many of us have memories linked to shame,

inadequacy, and pain,

like Israel’s memory of their broken covenants

and spiritual infidelity,

and these can paralyze us in bitterness, self-pity, and self-doubt.

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Prayer in Troubled Times

We said to ourselves, “We believe in Jesus plus white supremacy;

Jesus plus comfortability.”

We preached this in churches.

We obscured Your teachings;

there is no longer any prophet,

and there is no one among us who knows how long.

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La Loche, Adam and the Eventide of Joy

Adam knew with Isaiah that there was something

deeply wrong in our world.

Adam knew that,

“the earth is utterly broken,

the earth is torn asunder,”

and he dedicated his life to the healing of that broken world.

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Longing for Stability

I am longing for sabbath: for the time and space that might allow me to dwell in the healing stability of God's love.

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What is Love? Rehearing 1 Corinthians 13

Love tends to no balance sheets of good and bad behaviour. Love holds on to what needs to be held; lets go of what needs to released.

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