On Wheat Parishes and Weed Parishes
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Last Sunday I offered up a reading of the Parable of the Sower in which the various surfaces upon which seed was sowed were interpreted as four different kinds of parishes, or more specifically, four kinds of commitments a parish can have. I spoke of path parishes, rocky ground parishes, thorn parishes, and good soil parishes. As I explained last week, the basis for this way of thinking can be found for example in Isaiah 29, in which the Lord speaks and says, “This people honors me with their lips, but their…
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