Tag Archives: Christianity

Of Faith (May Contain Some Feet)

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Bruce Pegg

Many of my runs take me along a mile-and-a-half stretch of Culver Road in Irondequoit, NY. About a half mile from home, they go past Transfiguration Lutheran Church then, almost another mile north, the Durand United Church of Christ and, on … Continue reading →

Posted in Grains of Sand | Tagged Christianity, faith, God, Mother Theresa | 2 Comments

You Are My Beloved. In You, I Am Well Pleased.

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Bruce Pegg

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became … Continue reading →

Posted in Grains of Sand, Sermons | Tagged Christianity, Glenn Williams, God, Kamakura, Kencho-ji, Matthew 17:1-9, Moses, Mount Ararat, Mount Horeb, Mount Sinai, Mountain symbolism, Noah's Ark, Sermon on the Mount, Transfiguration | 3 Comments

You Always Have The Poor With You

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Bruce Pegg

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. … Continue reading →

Posted in Grains of Sand, Sermons | Tagged anointing, Bethany, Christianity, false dilemma, Gospels, Jesus, John 12:1-8, Lazarus, zero-sum game | Leave a comment

You Say That I Am A King

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?” Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew, … Continue reading →

Posted in Grains of Sand, Sermons | Tagged Christ the King, Christianity, Eternal Truths, homily, John 18:33-37, sermon, William Blake | 4 Comments

A Brief Biography of God Part Four: Life Support

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

After hanging around the planet for millennia, messing with humans only to have them mess right back, our favorite Supreme Being took just a couple of hundred years to go from from comfortable middle age to life support.

Posted in A Brief Biography of God, Grains of Sand | Tagged Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, fundamentalism, God, John Fowles, Mary Anning, metaphysics, Neil deGrasse Tyson, religion, The Bible, Ussher's Chronology, William Herschel | 1 Comment

A Brief Biography of God Part Three: The Midlife Crisis

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Somewhere around 9,000 years ago, give or take a few thousand years, humans began to abandon their hunter-gatherer cultures. They started to domesticate livestock and cultivate crops, which meant that they could stop wandering the land and start to build … Continue reading →

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A Brief Biography of God Part Two: The Awkward Teenage Years

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

So God’s biography begins with humans attempting to provide a very basic and primitive explanation of creation. Some ancient societies imagined multiple gods and goddesses responsible for different natural phenomena—the sun, water, the seasons, nature’s bounty were all personified by human-like … Continue reading →

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A Brief Biography of God Part One: The Early Years

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

The image of God, or of a supernatural being or beings somehow controlling the universe, must have entered the human brain very early in our history on this planet. Creationists and evolutionists and everyone in between, I think, can agree … Continue reading →

Posted in A Brief Biography of God, Grains of Sand | Tagged anthropology, Christianity, dawn of civilization, fundamentalism, God, metaphysics, myth, storytelling, The Bible | 3 Comments

A Brief Biography of God: Prologue

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Originally written in 2007 under the title “A Short History of God,” this series of essays lay out the foundation of my personal beliefs about religion and spirituality. Much of what I say here will be familiar to readers of … Continue reading →

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