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Fr. Carl Adair Fr. Carl Adair

What do we want to carry on? And what is it time to let go of?

A reflection for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany.

A reflection on Tina, realizing that she wants to be a different kind of parent than the parents she had. And a reflection on the Gospel according to Matthew, as a realization that some of Isaiah’s vision must be carried on—and other parts can be let go of.

An invitation to “believe” as an intentional expansion of the ways we were taught to believe.

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Fr. Carl Adair Fr. Carl Adair

Come and see: the real deal

A reflection for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany.

A reflection on the witness of Jesus in response to the politics of spectacle invoked by the Trump Administration. And a further invitation to say the Nicene Creed, this week as a protest song, as a freedom song.

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Elizabeth, floating
Fr. Carl Adair Fr. Carl Adair

Elizabeth, floating

A reflection for the Baptism of our Lord.

And the first in a series about what it might me to “believe.” So we build toward an invitation to try on one way of saying the Nicene Creed.

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Embracing a secondary role
Fr. Carl Adair Fr. Carl Adair

Embracing a secondary role

A reflection on Joseph for the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

And—a geeky digression on how we might think about the “virgin birth.”

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Wild hopes
Fr. Carl Adair Fr. Carl Adair

Wild hopes

Thoughts about tradition as a patchwork: we keep taking it apart and putting it back together.

And for this “Gaudete” Sunday—the Third Sunday of Advent—on Mary’s song, “the Magnificat.”

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You’re contagious
Fr. Carl Adair Fr. Carl Adair

You’re contagious

On the healing of the ten lepers

Or, another way to read the Bible—close to the bone, close to the brain stem.

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