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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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Diana Wright
Oct 1, 20225 min read
All My Hope
17 Pentecost, Proper 22 2 Oct 2022 Based on 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Parents are, in the best of worlds, our first teachers and greatest...
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Diana Wright
Oct 1, 20225 min read
Wobblies and Andrew Carnegie
16 Pentecost Proper 21 Based on Luke 16:19-31 25 Sept 2022 I wish that when, in public schools, we studied taught American history we had...
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Diana Wright
Oct 1, 20224 min read
Let Us Lament
15 Pentecost, Proper 20 18 Sep 2022 Based on Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 Jeremiah uttered his profound words of desolation and lament over 2000...
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Diana Wright
Oct 1, 20225 min read
"L" Words
14 Pentecost, Proper 19 11 Sept 2022 Based on Luke 15:1-10 It would be so easy to make today’s readings into a diatribe against sin and...
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Diana Wright
Sep 4, 20224 min read
Count the Cost (the Very High Cost)
Pentecost 13, Proper 18 (C) 4 Sept 2022 The lectionary readings for today left me feeling confused and baffled. I felt a great unease in...
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Diana Wright
Sep 4, 20224 min read
Bent but not Broken
11 Pentecost, Proper 16 21 Aug 2022 You walk into a place for the first time and look around at the people who are there. Young people,...
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Diana Wright
Aug 13, 20225 min read
It is Getting Harder
10 Pentecost, Proper 15 14 Aug 2022 Frauds! You know how to tell a change in the weather, so don’t tell me you can’t tell a change in the...
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Diana Wright
Aug 10, 20225 min read
God is Where We Put Our Hearts (and that just might be money)
9 Pentecost, Proper 14 7 Aug 2022 I came across this thought from a seminary instructor: we can talk about Biblical inerrancy and...
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Diana Wright
Aug 1, 20224 min read
The Biggest Grain Elevators
8 Pentecost Proper 13C 31 Jul 2022 We can love things and use people, or we can love people and use things. Jesus has just given several...
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Diana Wright
Jul 24, 20225 min read
Nevertheless, Gomer Persisted.
Given the current assault on women and their denigration to a status of less than a person (which has been the condition of women for...
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Diana Wright
Jul 20, 20225 min read
Rotten fruit
6 Pentecost Proper 11 17 July 2022 When I was in grade school, I remember getting hearing tests at the school nurse’s office; they were...
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Diana Wright
Jul 7, 20225 min read
Dangerous Roads
5 Pentecost, Proper 10 10 Jul 2022 It is not the usual style of a homilist to read the sermon someone else wrote, especially one written...
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Diana Wright
Jul 7, 20223 min read
Voices
4 Pentecost, Proper 9C 3 July 2022 I enjoy a good story. The best stories surprise you; the ending should be clear only in the end....
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Diana Wright
Jul 1, 20223 min read
Then Longen Folk to go on Pilgrimages
WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which...
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Diana Wright
May 30, 20225 min read
Down to the River to Pray
6 Easter 22 May 2022 Mysteries seem to be a popular form of literature. There is certainly great variation in the genre; with some of the...
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Diana Wright
May 30, 20224 min read
Knocking on Earth's Door
5 Easter 15 May 2022 The last few years have been, to put it mildly, rough on everyone. When hasn’t there been a “rough time” for...
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Diana Wright
May 7, 20225 min read
You Need to Dance
4C Easter 8 May 2022 Today is Mother’s Day. In the home in which I was raised, this was a holiday to be celebrated. If parenting means...
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Diana Wright
May 4, 20225 min read
Agape My Sheep
3C Easter 1 May 2022 Anyone here ever needed forgiveness? I suppose there are folk who never do wrong in life; I have never met one and...
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Diana Wright
Apr 24, 20224 min read
Full Pistis
2 Easter 24 Apr 2022 When a label is applied, it is hard to remove. How would you like to be remembered as Thomas, the one who doubted,...
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Diana Wright
Apr 18, 20223 min read
Your Father and Mine
Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday 16 and 17 Apr 2022 I thought it would be really cool if Mary Magdalene had carried a cell phone and a...
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