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About C R Taylor
Chris Taylor is the author of I,John, a novel. He is a graduate of Duke University, and he lives and writes in eastern North Carolina.
When he is not working, Chris does whatever his dog and his daughter tell him to do. (They are very persuasive.)
When he is not working, Chris does whatever his dog and his daughter tell him to do. (They are very persuasive.)
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Blog post(Note: This post is from the text for a sermon delivered at First Baptist Church in Goldsboro, NC.)
When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.
Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
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Blog postSeventh Sunday after the Epiphany | Luke 6:27-38
Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. So who thought this was a good idea?
Do to others as you would have them do to you. Most of us are good with this one. We can wrap our minds around it, and it isn’t even specific to Christianity — there are other flavors of the golden rule floating around out there. We like the idea, until we realize that “others” includes everybody, including our enemies.
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Blog postSixth Sunday after the Epiphany | Luke 6:17-26 Reading Luke’s beatitudes, we want to make them about spiritual things. Is that so wrong, to read a Sermon on the Mount passage, and to want it to be about spiritual things? Maybe. It’s wrong, if we pretend Jesus was not addressing practical things, because that lets …
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Blog postFifth Sunday after the Epiphany | Luke 5:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13 We don’t know what Jesus told them. A story centered on Jesus sitting in a boat and teaching a crowd, and we don’t hear a word of what was said. That’s odd. We do hear from Peter, a fisherman willing to let this wandering teacher …
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Blog postEpiphany | Matthew 2:1-12 A few years ago, I agreed to write a reflection each week, a post to match the gospel passage for each of the Sunday readings in the Revised Common Lectionary. It was a three year project, as there are three years in the lectionary cycle. In January of 2016, Epiphany didn’t …
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Blog postProper 21 (26) | Mark 10:2-16 The Gospel of Mark puts strange things together. In the story of Jairus trying to get help for his daughter, we read about a sick woman in the street. There are blind men in odd places. Jesus sends his disciples out to preach, only to have their adventures paired …
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Blog postMark 2:23-3:6 | Second Sunday after Pentecost Why do so many people want to insist that Jesus was always nice? They like to talk about Jesus healing people, and they love to say that he suffered the little children to come unto him. (We can thank the King James for that fascination, I think.) Mark …
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Blog post490 Butterflies | Matthew 18:21-35 That’s the number — 7 times 70, or 490. There’s some variation in how we understand the conversation Matthew recorded, so maybe the number is just 77. Either way, it’s substantially larger than Peter was prepared to hear. If someone sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many …
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Blog postFrom the Inside Out | Matthew 9:35 – 10:8 Where are the miracle workers when you need them? Then Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every sickness. (Matthew 10:1, NRSV) If Christians went around with the ability to cure …
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Blog postSeventh Sunday of Easter | John 17:1-11 As a child I watched magicians on television. Well, magicians, and other folks like them who performed tricks of legerdemain. There were standard tricks—the disappearing lady, things in hats, impossible numbers of plates spinning on implausibly thin poles. Then there were the rings, the metal circles, clearly solid, …
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Books By C R Taylor
I, John
Aug 27, 2014
by
C R Taylor
$3.99
John, the son of Zebedee, is still alive. Saint John, the Apostle, the Evangelist, author of a Gospel and letters and perhaps even the Book of Revelation. That John.
For twenty centuries, he has wandered the earth. He is not alone. The angels, light and dark, watch him. Lazarus, raised from the dead and unable to die again, has brought something of the tomb back with him. And John has guarded a dangerous secret all of these years, ever since Mary left him in solitude.
Twenty centuries is plenty of time to doubt. Was Jesus what he appeared to be? Did John and his companions understand any of it? Only God knows whether the things they saw and the words they heard were true.
And God isn’t saying anything at all.
For twenty centuries, he has wandered the earth. He is not alone. The angels, light and dark, watch him. Lazarus, raised from the dead and unable to die again, has brought something of the tomb back with him. And John has guarded a dangerous secret all of these years, ever since Mary left him in solitude.
Twenty centuries is plenty of time to doubt. Was Jesus what he appeared to be? Did John and his companions understand any of it? Only God knows whether the things they saw and the words they heard were true.
And God isn’t saying anything at all.
Sister Fox and the Dark Closet
Aug 9, 2013
$2.99
Sister Fox is very smart and very strong and very brave. In fact, she isn't afraid of anything, except clowns. Chocolate, her favorite pony, is missing, lost in the jungle in the back of the dark closet. Sister Fox and her friend Mr. Rex set out to rescue Chocolate, but there are clowns in this jungle...
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