WELCOME TO UNHOLY THOUGHTS

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

Doubt

[[File:Sergey Korovin - Pentecost.jpg|thumb|Sergey Korovin - Pentecost]] Pentecost 23 May 2021 Doubt: it’s what’s for dinner. It feels...

Diana Wright

Jun 3, 20214 min read

1 view

0 comments

Potluck

7 Easter 16 May 2021 Yesterday Nan and I hosted a potluck. I smoked a turkey and made flan; the first was close to perfect; the second...

Diana Wright

Jun 3, 20214 min read

8 views

0 comments

Great Grandfather's Inventory

An ancestor of mine, a 5th great grandfather. Obviously a wealthy Charles County Maryland planter. Anglican and undoubtedly a large...

Diana Wright

May 8, 20211 min read

10 views

0 comments

Joy

Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons 6 Easter 9 May 2021 One of the items...

Diana Wright

May 8, 20215 min read

11 views

0 comments

Authority

Rembrandt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 5 Easter 2 May 2021 I keep asking myself why, over the nearly 2000 years since Jesus...

Diana Wright

May 2, 20215 min read

5 views

0 comments

Green pastures; dark valleys

4 Easter Good Shepherd Sunday 25 Apr 2021 Yesterday marked the 106th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide and the United...

Diana Wright

Apr 30, 20214 min read

6 views

0 comments

Caretaker

Jasperseth52, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons 3 Easter 18 Apr 2021 I am rejoicing in...

Diana Wright

Apr 30, 20214 min read

3 views

0 comments

Alive

Noelcmn, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons 2B Easter 11 Apr 2021 The second Sunday of...

Diana Wright

Apr 30, 20215 min read

3 views

0 comments

Forever Young

Image by Janyka Mitchell from Pixabay Easter Year B 4 Apr 2021 Spring Mary Oliver Faith is the instructor. We need no other. Guess what I...

Diana Wright

Apr 6, 20212 min read

0 views

0 comments

Swinging Bridges

Maundy Thursday and Good Friday 2021 1 and 2 Apr 2021 When I was young I used to attend Camp Hantesa every sum-mer. It was, and is, a...

Diana Wright

Apr 6, 20214 min read

1 view

0 comments

God On a Donkey

Palm Sunday B 28 Mar 2021 I have been wrestling all week with God and my sermon. Things kept sounding like on of those old school essays...

Diana Wright

Mar 29, 20214 min read

6 views

0 comments

In the Breach

Lent 5B 21 Mar 2021 “We want to see Jesus.” Philip must have been flummoxed and had no clue what to do with that request; he passed in on...

Diana Wright

Mar 23, 20215 min read

1 view

0 comments

Eternal Zoo

Image by Stefano Ferrario Lent 4B 14 Mar 2021 John 3:16. Perhaps the verse in the entire Bible I dislike the most. It elicits a Pavlovian...

Diana Wright

Mar 14, 20217 min read

2 views

0 comments

Heirlooms and Stories

Lent 3B 7 Mar 2021 I like to grow heirloom vegetables. Maybe it is in the names; green beans with names such as Autumn Zebra and Beurre...

Diana Wright

Mar 8, 20216 min read

9 views

0 comments

Mystery of the Cross

2nd Sunday in Lent As a young person I read some of the popular mystery works of the day. I think most people remember or at least have...

Diana Wright

Feb 27, 20216 min read

11 views

0 comments

Seeing the Light

Two days ago was the Feast of the Epiphany. It was also the day the United States Capitol was stormed by those I will politely call the...

Diana Wright

Jan 9, 20214 min read

25 views

0 comments

Life Together in the Time of COVID 19 (First published in March of this year as COVID 19 came)

It has taken me the better part of my life to figure out that the Christian Life is a life lived in community. It is community. You may...

Diana Wright

Jan 2, 20213 min read

11 views

0 comments

E Pluribus Unum

Those words seem a strange way to start an essay on Christian faith; they are, after all, words found on many U.S coins. I am not sure...

Diana Wright

Jan 2, 20212 min read

7 views

0 comments

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Christmas Lessons and Carols

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

New Year Eve Lessons

CONTACT

tcteciowa@gmail.com

WELCOME TO UNHOLY THOUGHTS

Doubt

Potluck

Great Grandfather's Inventory

Joy

Authority

Green pastures; dark valleys

Caretaker

Alive

Forever Young

Swinging Bridges

God On a Donkey

In the Breach

Eternal Zoo

Heirlooms and Stories

Mystery of the Cross

Seeing the Light

Life Together in the Time of COVID 19 (First published in March of this year as COVID 19 came)

E Pluribus Unum

Subscribe Form

Christmas Lessons and Carols

New Year Eve Lessons

CONTACT

Subscribe Form