Tag: Darkness

Cronyism And Corruption Thrive In Darkness

Image Credit: Canva By Deborah Fisher, Executive Director of Tennessee Coalition for Open Government [via The Tennessee Lookout] – An often quoted phrase related to open government is one by Louis Brandeis, an attorney and associate justice on the Supreme Court whose work and writings spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  “Sunlight is […]

From Darkness to Light: Sunday Reflection – HotAir

This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 1:21–28: Then they came to Capernaum, and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, […]

The light shineth in the darkness

THE set Gospel reading for Christmas Day in the Book of Common Prayer makes clear that the conflict between good and evil is intrinsic to the Christmas message.  Today’s reading from the first chapter of John’s Gospel, verses 1 to 14, does not name Jesus Christ, God’s anointed King or Messiah as promised in the […]