Who We Really Are – Sep. 29, 2021
“Repentance really is about coming to terms with who we really are. That’s true in a couple of senses: both in terms of claiming our own mistakes, not running from them, not hiding them, but actually claiming them – knowing that they’re true and owning them; and also owning the fact that deep down, our […]
Not in Bondage – Sep. 28, 2021
“We cannot literally go back in time and undo what we did. And yet, repentance is precisely that process by which we can — in the moral realm, if not in the physical realm — we can go back to the deed, we can find that part of ourselves that led to doing the transgression, […]
Repentance and Grace
It is the Second Sunday of Advent – preparation in the church’s liturgical year for Christ who has come and is coming. And as it is every year, today’s gospel reading tells of the wild figure of John the Baptist in the desert crying out, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”* Repentance […]
