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Jan. 18th, 2006 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafSo I somehow ended up taking Evensong tomorrow night. Still trying to decide whether I can manage to write a sermon.
The readings are appalling: Amos 9, which is God threatening to destroy the people of Israel ("Are ye not as Ethiopians to me?"), and ! Cor 7:25- end, which is Paul explaining why he thinks people shouldn't get married.
I'm probably just a dirty minded mediaevalist (or I've spent too long in HP fandom already, but I can't help feeling that Revised-Standard-Version-Paul's worries about married men being too concerned about 'pleasing their wives' could have been better phrased....
The readings are appalling: Amos 9, which is God threatening to destroy the people of Israel ("Are ye not as Ethiopians to me?"), and ! Cor 7:25- end, which is Paul explaining why he thinks people shouldn't get married.
I'm probably just a dirty minded mediaevalist (or I've spent too long in HP fandom already, but I can't help feeling that Revised-Standard-Version-Paul's worries about married men being too concerned about 'pleasing their wives' could have been better phrased....
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Date: 2006-01-19 10:53 pm (UTC)so more smiting and shaking of the earth!
I got something in the end, though, by arguing that we should take the marriage as symbolic of involvement in the world - but that, whatever Paul says about avoiding trouble and anxiety, involvement in the world is the only way to know and serve God for most people.
I dunno: best I could do in 24 hours, anyway.
We got through the service without any disasters, which was my main hope, never having done something like that before.