by Christian Coon | Mar 14, 2012 | BLOG
It was a fascinating day as a father yesterday. This picture was in the Chicago Tribune yesterday as my daughter was captured participating in the 100th birthday celebration for the Girl Scouts. I, of course, put it on my Facebook page and allowed the world to revel...
by Christian Coon | Mar 11, 2012 | BLOG
A few weeks ago, I was grumbling about the lack of a real winter and it’s still freakishly warm in March here, but it certainly doesn’t do me any good to complain about that. Instead about an hour ago, my daughter asked me to play catch. There’s a...
by Christian Coon | Mar 8, 2012 | BLOG
A 4th-century rabbi once declared that it was right and good that a person should say this blessing after using the restroom (or whatever the restroom was called in the 4th century): “Blessed is He who has formed man in wisdom and created in him many orifices...
by Christian Coon | Mar 8, 2012 | BLOG
Today’s reading Mark 7:24-37. One of the biggest questions that folks have asked over the years (centuries?) has to do with what’s sometimes called the “messianic secret.” After performing a healing, verse 30 notes that “Jesus ordered...
by Christian Coon | Mar 7, 2012 | BLOG
Something to think about for today’s reading (which is actually 1-23, not 1-25): It’s easy for us to criticize the Pharisees and other teachers for their seeming obsession with things like washing their hands. But we should also remember that many faithful...
by Christian Coon | Mar 1, 2012 | BLOG
There are some in our world who proclaim a prosperity gospel and part of that includes the belief that if you simply give more (usually money) to God, then you will receive more. There are lots of examples of this (here’s one using a prayer cloth as a way to...
