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Hey, Today is St. Matthew’s Day

Perhaps not surprisingly, in my ordained life, I’ve been asked several times: “Doesn’t it seem weird when you are reading the gospel in church to say, ‘…from the gospel according to Matthew’?”  Or, “don’t you want to sometimes say, ‘…from … Continue reading

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Sexburga

Well, how can you pass up writing about a saint with a name like that?  Today the church celebrates the life of St. Sexburga, Abbess of Ely who died circa 700 A.D.  Sexburga was both the queen of Kent and, … Continue reading

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