Series on the Divine Liturgy, Part 4

The Scriptural Liturgy. Oops! If fedoras existed in ancient Israel, the high priest Hilkiah would have worn one long before Indiana Jones did. In the previous weeks, we’ve slowly been moving through the history of ancient Israel: from the Passover

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Series on the Divine Liturgy, Part 3

Oops! If you take what doesn’t belong to you, it’s said that you have “sticky fingers.” However, those who do the taking say they’re merely taking advantage of the “five-finger discount.” Whatever spin you put on it, morally, it’s wrong

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Series on the Divine Liturgy, Part 2

Oops! What do you do when all your hard work goes unnoticed? What do you do when others reject good things you’ve done for them? Those were the questions God had to ask himself after freeing his own people from

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Series on Divine Liturgy, Part 1

Oops! Once, a young woman was preparing a pot roast for a family dinner. She cut off the ends of the roast before placing it in the pan. Curious, her husband asked why she did that. “I don’t know,” she

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