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Sunday, February 06, 2011
The Right Seasoning
by Rev. Joyce Antila Phipps
Texts: Isaiah 58: 1-12; Matthew 5: 13-20

Once upon a time there was a king who had two daughters. No…. this is not about Lear; he had three daughters. And this king wanted to test his daughters, much like Lear wanted to test his. So he asked his daughters what the sweetest substance was in the world. The older daughter immediately said, “Sugar, of course. Without sugar, how could we have our wonderful desserts?” The king was pleased and turned to the younger one, secretly hoping that she could surpass her sister who was not a very nice person, always beating the servants and shouting at everyone.

The younger girl looked at her father straight in the eye and said, “Salt.” The older began to chide her, “How could you take our father’s question so lightly? Why do you not respect him?” An...
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
Answering Judas
by Rev. Joyce Antila Phipps
Texts: Psalm 62; John 14: 18-29

Sixty-five years ago at midnight last night, the guns fell silent across Europe. Hitler had committed suicide on April 30; the acting president of Germany, Karl Donitz, a naval commander named by Hitler as his successor, signed an unconditional surrender when he and the German high command realized that they no longer needed to fear Hitler and that the war was over. Some of you who are old enough may remember that people danced in the streets of London, Paris, and New York. I still have The Washington Post from May 9 stating that the most massive war in human history had finally ended. Retribution in Europe was swift. In some countries Nazi collaborators were murdered, their families hounded; the French, always with an eye towards detail, shaved the heads of women who had slept with Nazi...
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