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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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Love, Resurrection, and Sandals
Easter 8 and 9 Apr 2023 We come with light and with light hearts; we fill our worship space with the glorious perfume of the Easter lily,...
Diana Wright
Apr 6, 20233 min read
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To Bow and To Bend We Will Not Be Asham'd
Maundy Thursday 6 Apr 2023 John 13 Jesus knew it was time to leave this world. And go back to the father. His love for the ones who...
Diana Wright
Apr 6, 20234 min read
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Your Looking At The Resurrection
5A Lent 26 Mar 2023 John 11:1-45 Pop quiz! What are the seven signs in the Gospel of John? Anyone who gets all the answers correctly...
Diana Wright
Mar 26, 20235 min read
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Decor and Decorum
4A Lent 19 Mar 2023 John 9:1-41 Decorum. I like the word; it exudes order, logic, cleanliness, neatness, pleasantness and politeness,...
Diana Wright
Mar 22, 20234 min read
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Give Me A Drink
3A Lent 12 Mar 2023 John 4: 5-32 Water, I learned in elementary school, is the chief component of the human body. A careful balance of...
Diana Wright
Mar 16, 20234 min read
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Nic at Night
2A Lent 5 Mar 2023 John 3:1-17 I In a book I am currently reading, the author was fretting about a sermon he wrote and called it “crap.” ...
Diana Wright
Mar 8, 20235 min read
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Trust
Lent 1A 26 Feb 2023 Matthew 4:1-11 Fear. All this talk about temptation is at its core a way to get to us through our fears. The devil,...
Diana Wright
Feb 25, 20234 min read
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Bless These Candles
5A Epiphany 5 Feb 2023 Matthew 5:13-16 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly;...
Diana Wright
Feb 4, 20234 min read
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What Are You Looking For?
2A Epiphany 15 Jan 2023 John 1: 29-42 “What are you looking for?” “Come and you will see.” And they spent the rest of the day with him,...
Diana Wright
Jan 20, 20234 min read
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Raven Steals the Light: Epiphany
Epiphany Year A Matthew 2:1-12 Isaiah 60:1-6 Read the legend from Bill Reid. We all have our stories of light overcoming darkness. This...
Diana Wright
Jan 20, 20232 min read
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We Tell the Story: God Came to Make Us Human
Christmas Eve A 24 Dec 2022 Christmas: it is upon us, arriving and finding us not quite ready and taken by surprise, like the owner of...
Diana Wright
Dec 25, 20225 min read
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God in Each Other and in Solidarity with All
4A Advent 18 Dec 2022 Mary has just conceived; perhaps she not far enough into her pregnancy to even experience any of the signs of...
Diana Wright
Dec 17, 20225 min read
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The Better Way
3 Advent 2022 11 December 2022 Matthew 1:18-25, Isaiah 35:1-10 The woman you planned to marry is pregnant, nothing new in the course of...
Diana Wright
Dec 10, 20225 min read
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When We Are Met In Our Fear
2A Advent 4 Dec 2022 Fear. The angel Gabriel said to Mary, “Do not fear.” I keep wondering how a fourteen-year-old girl, able to have...
Diana Wright
Dec 9, 20224 min read
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We Make the Stories; We Tell the Stories; We Are the Stories
1 Advent, Year A 27 November 2022 Matthew 1 and Isaiah 2:1-5 It is impossible to deny our connections with the past. Advent and...
Diana Wright
Nov 26, 20225 min read
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Who's the Boss of Me and You?
Reign of Christ 20 Nov 2022 Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary theory stating that, within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex...
Diana Wright
Nov 26, 20224 min read
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You Will Not Be Harmed
23 Pentecost , Proper 28 13 Nov 2022 This is it: the end of our liturgical year. Jesus has made it to Jerusalem just in time for Advent. ...
Diana Wright
Nov 14, 20225 min read
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Flipping Omelettes for the Love of God
All Saints 6 Nov 2022 In the 1600’s there lived a Carmelite monk who took the name Brother Lawrence. Before his entry into monastic life...
Diana Wright
Nov 5, 20225 min read
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Help Me, Help Me, Help Me, and Thank You
20 Pentecost Proper 25C 23 Oct 2022 “Thank you God that I am not like that egotistic Pharisee over there who thinks he is just the cat’s...
Diana Wright
Nov 5, 20224 min read
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Return and Give Thanks
18 Pentecost Proper 23C 9 Oct 2022 Jesus is nearing the end of his journey to Jerusalem just as we are nearing the end of our church year....
Diana Wright
Oct 10, 20225 min read
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