Brian J. Walsh's Blog, page 22

A Penthouse or a Stable?

They have all come,

either summoned or seeking an audience.

In and out of Trump Tower,

the rich, the powerful, the celebrities,

have come to see the one who will be president.

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Advent and the King without Bling

Kings with bling love extravagant and vulgar display.

Especially at parties for their rich and powerful friends.

The servant king likes parties too.

But his parties are for everyone.

And the meal begins very simply

with a loaf of bread and a jug of wine.

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Evangelicalism as the Gates of Hell?

What if the church is the Gates of Hell?

What if the church in the United States is no longer raiding the gates of hell,

but have easily walked in?

What if the church in the United States is now so apostate,

that the Gates of Hell have indeed prevailed against the church?

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Celtic Soul at the End of a Very Bad Week

What we have seen in the last week,

and what Isaiah saw in the ruins of Israel

is the failure of imagination,

the inability to imagine life radically different from the status quo.

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Dance Us Through the Panic

This week, St. Leonard of Montreal leaves us to Isaiah, the prophet of old, to dance us through the panic till we’re gathered safely in.

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Come to the Table :: A Reflection

A reflection on Luke 24:13-35 by Andrew Stephens-Rennie for Come to the Table :: An Evening of Story, Stillness, and Song.

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An Election Prayer: Too Late for America?

It is too late to pray for this election.

Is it too late to pray for the United States?

Is it too late for America?

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Hanging on For Dear Life

We find Jesus on the side of the road, I can only imagine stunned, at the sight of the wide-eyed rich man hanging on to the tree for dear life

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“Law and Order” and the Ten Commandments

Are the ten commandments the foundation of “law and order”

or its deconstruction?

Are they words of repression or liberation?

Do they impose a restrictive law “written in stone” as it were,

or are they a call to a life of covenantal faithfulness?

Do they legitimate blind and patriotic obedience to the state,

or are they a radical word of revolution and civil disobedience?

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The God whose name isn’t God

This God, He reserves the right to define himself on his own terms.

This God, She moves in mysterious ways.

This God will not fit into a gendered box,

or any other box for that manner.

This God shatters any boxes we try to put around them.

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