Peace in a Locked-in Place, Reflections on John 20:19-20
The regular cycle of bible readings known as the Lectionary keeps us in familiar territory as the Easter season unfolds.…
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The regular cycle of bible readings known as the Lectionary keeps us in familiar territory as the Easter season unfolds.…
Reflection 3 New Creation The first creation story in Genesis 1 tells us that God created humankind in God’s image.…
Reflection 2 Jesus—the Second Incarnation There is a second incarnation, the one we’re more familiar with, when God himself steps down…
Creation—The First Incarnation The word incarnation is one we tend to confine to one particular season of the year. It’s…
I wonder if our struggle to make sense of this strange story, beyond the simplistic “Jesus heals us” bit, is…
Then finally, again, there is the healed man. The story ends where it began with the man begging Jesus again…
The keepers of the pigs are evangelists of a sort, who rush off from the scene of extraordinary happenings to…
There’s a lot of begging going on in this story. The man begs Jesus (5:10); the spirits beg Jesus (5:12);…
There are a number of men in our group with experience of security and insight into military history, so this…
So there we were talking about the Hebrew word tov. It was me, and a bunch mostly comprised of teenagers…