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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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Name Your Grief
Good Friday 15 Apr 2022 Good Friday is the most solemn of liturgies. Perhaps it best stands on its own, without the need for extra words....
Diana Wright
Apr 18, 20223 min read
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Salvation by a towel and a basin
Maundy Thursday 14 Apr 2022 Maundy Thursday is a lesson in power and in politics. I don’t know about you, but I was raised to view power...
Diana Wright
Apr 13, 20223 min read
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The Stones Shout Love
Palm Sunday 10 Apr 2022 If only the stones could talk. Stones do talk; they speak of forces that have rent apart the fabric of the earth....
Diana Wright
Apr 13, 20225 min read
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The Prodigious Parable
4C Lent 27 Mar 2022 I am glad we are not singing Amazing Grace today. I don’t think I could quite bear it. Not that I do not love the...
Diana Wright
Apr 13, 20224 min read
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The Gardener
3C Lent 20 Mar 2022 What has worth? What is the meaning of work? Two questions that permeate our lives. I grew up right here in Iowa, in...
Diana Wright
Mar 24, 20224 min read
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Missing Chicken and God's Motherly Love
2C Lent 13 Mar 2022 As many of you know, I have a small flock of chickens. They are somewhere between livestock and pets. Over time I...
Diana Wright
Mar 24, 20224 min read
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The Practice of Lent: Temptation
1C Lent 6 Mar 2022 I was listening to a short homily from on of the Brothers of SSJE in Cambridge, MA. The group has produced a series of...
Diana Wright
Mar 24, 20224 min read
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Herb Porridge or Dear Feast?
Ash Wednesday 2 Mar 2022 ‘I hate Lent, with its different diets and furmity and butter and herb porridge; and sour devout faces of people...
Diana Wright
Mar 24, 20223 min read
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Hey, Call Jesus
Transfiguration/Last Epiphany 27 Feb 2022 A preacher gets two chances to preach the transfiguration story every year. The first is at...
Diana Wright
Mar 24, 20225 min read
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Loosing Face (AKA the Shame Game)
7C Epiphany 20 Feb 2022 I wonder what made Jesus tick. What drove him to say the things he did and do the things he did? Just what was...
Diana Wright
Mar 24, 20225 min read
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Left Untried
6C Epiphany 13 Feb 2022 You leave your village early in the morning before the heat of the day would make walking any distance miserable....
Diana Wright
Feb 12, 20225 min read
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Come and Follow
5 Epiphany 6 Feb 2022 You have been following this young man for a while. He seems like a rising star; certainly he is the talk of...
Diana Wright
Feb 11, 20225 min read
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Love = God
4C Epiphany 30 Jan 2022 Texts we have all heard before. The text on love is indelibly associated with weddings in our culture. Is the...
Diana Wright
Feb 11, 20225 min read
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I'll Take Joy, Thank you
3C Epiphany 23 Jan 2022 Maybe joy is the wrong topic on the day of the annual meeting, but it seems to me what we need today is a very...
Diana Wright
Feb 11, 20225 min read
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What Kind of Wine?
2nd Sunday after the Epiphany 16 Jan 2022 Weddings are big deals in many, perhaps most, cultures. Jewish families in Jesus’ time were no...
Diana Wright
Feb 11, 20225 min read
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Only Seen in the Dark
Epiphany 2 Jan 2022 For the past two summers I have had the good fortune to find the dark. In much of the United State it is hard to...
Diana Wright
Jan 3, 20226 min read
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The Word is very Near You
1 Christmas C 26 Dec 2021 If a preacher is looking for a challenge, look no farther than the first words of the Gospel of John. How...
Diana Wright
Jan 3, 20224 min read
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See Christmas in the Dark
Christmas Eve 24 Dec 2021 Tonight is perhaps in the popular imagination the most holy of nights. As a child Christmas was far more...
Diana Wright
Jan 3, 20223 min read
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I've Got the Joy
Advent 3C 12 Dec 2021 The themes of Advent: hope, love, joy, and peace. There are other traditional ways of naming the Sundays or themes...
Diana Wright
Dec 21, 20214 min read
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Two Curmudgeons and a Scribe
Advent 2C 5 Dec 2021 The themes of Advent: hope, love, joy, and peace. There are other traditional ways of naming the Sundays or themes...
Diana Wright
Dec 21, 20214 min read
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