Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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In this week’s gap in the lectionary, we have a familiar story—that fleshes out the wider story more fully…if we read it in its context.
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Reading the story of Salome is an opportunity for us to uncover the truth that we’d rather keep hidden: about power and control.
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It is easy for us to see what is terrible about Herod’s decision in the gospel this week. But we must focus on the implications of it all.
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The commitments we make, to one another, to our families, to God, are all bound up in our character. Here’s how we get tangled up.
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As our focus shifts to John the Baptizer, let’s take a minute to put that shift into context, particularly with where Jesus is.
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In their desire to keep things as they are, the townspeople struggle with the opportunity Jesus offers them: to make a new normal.