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Welcome to Unholy Thoughts, musings on Christian scripture and the world at large through the lens of an ordinary sort of person. I am moving my blog to Substack. Future posts can be found at: https://dianawright431838.substack.com/publish/posts
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Joy for Everyone
Joy came to Cornelius and the gentiles.
Diana Wright
May 9, 20244 min read
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Pick Up Your Pruning Shears
5B Easter 28 Apr 2024 Abide. Wait, remain, stay, delay, remain behind; survive; wait for, await; expecting. This is a good English...
Diana Wright
May 2, 20243 min read
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We Are All in the Fold
4B Easter 21 Apr 2024 Tomorrow is Earth Day. As a college student at ISU in the early 1970’s, I felt hope that people would see how we...
Diana Wright
May 2, 20244 min read
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God Listens
3B Easter 14 Apr 2024 There are times, all too frequently, when I just want to say to heck with it, or something even less polite. There...
Diana Wright
May 2, 20245 min read
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Agape Me, Peter
2B Easter 7 Apr 2024 Based on John 21:1-19 Lent is over; we can breathe and shout our alleluias! Where will we take Easter and where...
Diana Wright
Apr 6, 20244 min read
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It's Never Too Late!
Jesus says it's never too late!
Diana Wright
Apr 5, 20243 min read
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I Am NOT: Peter on Good Friday
Good Friday 29 Mar 2024 Descent. The noun of the day. Good Friday is nothing if not a story of descent and descending. Is this not the...
Diana Wright
Apr 5, 20243 min read
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It's Not About Dirty Feet
Maundy Thursday 28 Mar 2024 Since I have been journeying through Lent with Peter, I started wondering what he was thinking during the...
Diana Wright
Mar 27, 20243 min read
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Is 490 the Limit?
5B Lent 17 Mar 2024 Based on Matthew 18:15-22 Teach Me (Some Melodious Sonnet) Let’s set the scene for this story. Last week we found...
Diana Wright
Mar 27, 20244 min read
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The Devil Made Me Do It
4B Lent 9 Mar 2024 Based on Matthew 16:21-23 Lenten series based on Peter's journey as a disciple. “Get behind me, Satan!!” Wow! Jesus...
Diana Wright
Mar 16, 20244 min read
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He To Rescue Me From Danger
2B Lent 25 Feb 2024 Based on Luke 14:22-33 What made you hold back and doubt me? A question most of us have, could, or should ask...
Diana Wright
Feb 26, 20245 min read
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Jesus Sought Me (and Peter and You)
1B Lent 18 Feb 2024 Based on Luke 5 and the hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" He was born and raised in Galilee, most likely from...
Diana Wright
Feb 19, 20244 min read
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Downhill is not the Road I Want to Take
Last Epiphany B: Transfiguration 11 Feb 2024 Mark 9:2-9 You read something over and over again and you think you know it, and in truth...
Diana Wright
Feb 11, 20244 min read
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Pray, Work, Love
5B Epiphany 4 Feb 2024 Mark 1 Mark likes to keep everyone in the dark about Jesus. Theologians call it the “Messianic Secret.” You, the...
Diana Wright
Feb 5, 20245 min read
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Demon Hunters
4 Epiphany 28 Jan 2024 Mark 1:21-28 Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Demons!! What could be a more exciting topic than the demonic? Demon rum,...
Diana Wright
Jan 27, 20244 min read
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Off the Hook and Into the Net
3 Epiphany 21 Jan 2024 John the Baptizer, that charismatic leader, is in prison and his followers are at a loss. He was the glue that...
Diana Wright
Jan 24, 20244 min read
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Light and Water: Epiphany and Baptism
Epiphany/Baptism of Christ 6 and 7 Jan 2024 The Feast of Epiphany and the Baptism of Christ occur this year on two consecutive days, a...
Diana Wright
Jan 6, 20245 min read
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Christmas Through a Wide Angle Lens
Christmas Eve 24 Dec 2023 How are you going to play Christmas this year? We can play it as a Hallmark movie with an inevitably happy...
Diana Wright
Dec 30, 20233 min read
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Dam Shame
3 Advent B 17 Dec 2023 In the early summer of this year work began to remove Copco 2, a dam on the Klamath River in the Pacific...
Diana Wright
Dec 30, 20234 min read
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The One Who Opens Doors: Tenskwatawa
2 Advent B 10 Dec 2023 Note: this reflection contains some of the same material used in the Dec. 3rd reflection. Do you remember your...
Diana Wright
Dec 12, 20235 min read
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