Here's this week's Sermon from me:

Sermon for The Ordinary Office on the Feast of the Theophany
http://valoursvoyage.net/2023/01/08/sermon-for-the-ordinary-office-on-the-feast-of-the-theophany/

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James Baldwin is one of those authors who I have only begun to read in the last few years, to my shame, and I am rather of the opinion that his work should be taught in schools.

Notes of a Native Son would be easier to read, had I read the novel Native Son (Richard Wright) first, however, one can still make a great deal of sense of this collection of essays without it.

An excellent afternoon of playing Magic*, though I'm now absolutely exhausted.

It's been a very long week, in which I achieved none of the things I had planned for my holiday, because the puppy is refusing to sleep at night, and disturbed sleep always sends me into a flare.

Oh and I've developed high cholesterol since starting on Testosterone

* The Gathering - we play Commander with the kids

**we co-parent with my ex husband so he comes over every Saturday to see the kids

"Paul was a citizen of the Roman Empire, here and now, emphasizing without Jesus’s witty ambiguity that everyone must ‘be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.’ His command to obedience had a great future in Christian conversations with the powerful."

Diarmaid MacCulloch pointing out something quite important about the difference between Paul and Jesus which some worship traditions shld heed