• A New Name

    A New Name

    If you had a different name then the one you were given, what would it be? What would mine be? Really, what goes into a name?

  • The transgressive in Jesus’s healing stories

    The transgressive in Jesus’s healing stories

    In these two healing stories, Jesus offers information we’d rather skip over, providence we’d rather not have and cast only onto him.

  • Two Healing Stories—for Proper 8B

    Two Healing Stories—for Proper 8B

    This week’s gospel invites us to see two healing stories. If we take them together, what might we find? Not just healing, believing?

  • Healed —and the willingness to be changed

    Healed —and the willingness to be changed

    When we long to be healed, praying for God to heal us of what ails us, do we dare acknowledge that we are supposed to change?

  • Between Proper 7 + 8 (Year B)

    Between Proper 7 + 8 (Year B)

    The gap in this week’s lectionary tells the story of the healing of the Demoniac. But that isn’t the part that astounds us.

  • There must be something I should be doing.

    There must be something I should be doing.

    When Jesus and the disciples are caught out in a storm, it is telling how they respond. And more importantly how they don’t.

  • To lighten the rain

    To lighten the rain

    The joy of the elements is to be felt and experienced—with the courage to be open, to ourselves and others as we are or could be.

  • Deciding Not To Decide

    Deciding Not To Decide

    Sometimes we can decide not to decide. To choose both. But the point is to choose it. Declare to ourselves that this is what we want.