RoboPreacher

but i see a brand-new day dawning The holy gospel according to St. Luke the 24th chapter ! Opening Day coincided with Holy Week this year, and I have to think a little divine  provenance was at work there. All sports, but especially baseball, have a bit of the cross baked into them. Ostensibly, baseball is a game of handling your losses much more than it’s a game of racking up victories.   No documentary captures this upside - down dimension of the sport better than the “ Battered, so-and-so’s of Baseball .” *I’ve changed the title, by the way. Just in case there are any pious ears among us. You can find the documentary in question by googling “the Battered “b-a-s-…” of Baseball.” Or just googling “Portland Mavericks documentary.” Back in 1973, the Minor League team, the Portland Mavericks were on their last legs after seasons of dwindling ticket sales and even fewer wins. An unexpected future for the team comes in Bing Russel from Hollywood.   Bing was an actor . ...

will you carry me home A Sermon from Luke's Gospel for the Sunday after Easter Me: In the Gospel today, it’s still the same day the women came to the tomb at the break of dawn, only to be told that Jesus wasn't there. That he had been raised . Only now, it’s evening. In fact, in Luke’s Gospel, this is the first report of the resurrected Jesus. And the folks he shows up to, are two characters we haven’t met before. Cleopas, and his unnamed companion .  The two of them are heading to a village called Emmaus. We don’t know a lot about this village. It seem the two of them are heading there, though, because they’ve calling quits on the whole discipleship thing. They’re going back home to their old lives.  Strangely, when Jesus first appears to the two of them, they don’t recognize him at all! And that got me interested, how could Cleopas and his friend not recognize Jesus?  So I did a little research on the disciples named Cleopas. And...