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Witness is a participatory word
The word has its detractors. A lot of us have bad associations with it—in church or the courtroom. But it has a purpose worth noticing.
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Live Differently
Jesus asks his followers to live differently: from what they know, from their families, and from the world around them.
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Standing Against the World
When Jesus says that we are not “of the world,” he isn’t talking spiritually. We try to avoid thinking about what it really means for us.
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Trust in Love
In the Ascension, we are invited to reflect on the departure of Jesus from his disciples, and why it is that we always hate goodbyes.
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Between Easter 6 and 7 (Year B)
As we approach the end of Easter, we are confronted by the teaching Jesus offers—to keep loving long after he is gone—but instead we worry.
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Love—we have to learn it
We often treat love like an emotion that we merely experience. But Jesus commands us to love, to treat it like a behavior we are to learn.
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Inseparable
As Jesus describes himself as the vine and we are the branches, he compels us to reexamine the way we approach our world.
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Are we too obsessive? Yes. Yes we are.
We’re conflicted by the thought that God is responsible and also so are we, making it about our own obsessions with getting it right.