Poking Holes in the Darkness

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          The first gas street lights were lit in 1807 in London, England, revolutionizing city life.  Just 10 years later, gas street lights showed up in America, with the first lamp being lit on the corner of Baltimore and Holliday streets right here in Baltimore in 1817.  Each gas powered light had to be lit by a lamplighter with a stool or ladder and a torch, and he painstakingly carried the light from lamp post to lamp post each evening at dusk.   

           Watching the lamplighter at work from his bedroom window, Robert Louis Stevenson (of Treasure Island fame) was fascinated.  Continue reading “Poking Holes in the Darkness” →

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Malachi 3:1-6

We began Advent last week with the words of comfort from God to a people longing to go home.  Now we open the very last book of the Old Testament, the last of what are called the 12 minor prophets, likely placed here in Christian Bibles as a segway to the New Testament and the arrival of Jesus in the neighborhood.  In contrast, the Hebrew Scriptures place the all of the prophets before the books of what is grouped as “the other writings”– not the law or the history or the prophets– writings like the psalms, proverbs, Daniel, etc.  This tiny little prophetic book

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