Tag: beginning

  • We get to start somewhere

    We get to start somewhere

    This week, we read about the beginning of the good news. Mark’s gospel is a story without an ending. It only ever begins.

  • Between Advent 1 and 2 (Year B)

    Between Advent 1 and 2 (Year B)

    The turn from Advent 1 to 2 is the reset to the beginning from the end. An action that reminds us of more than the coming Christ child.

  • Origin stories are overrated

    Origin stories are overrated

      I tell people they won’t get the origin when they ask. That isn’t the story they actually want. That jumbled mess of confusion and diminished dreams pierced by a stunning bit of clarity. That sounds like a grand story of adventure and it is always mundane, normal. The story equivalent of a ham sandwich.…