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Choosing to Live
When Jesus is stymied in his hometown, we may be tempted to hear their stubbornness as rational, rather than what it is: delusional.
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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.
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Storms—the frights of living and saving
When the storms of life are raging, what is it that we actually want? Are we even able to see when the help is there for us?
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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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Peace—when we’re scared
We often treat fear as uncontrollable or something to ignore. But Jesus invites us to see that it is bot something real and temporary.
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Between Easter 1 and 2 (Year B)
In the first of the resurrection stories in John, we are confronted by questions we generally avoid in church about faith, fear, and identity.
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Always the Innocents
The feast day of Holy Innocents is the part of the Christmas story that never makes it into pageants. But we need to hear it each year.
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Light in darkening times
During these darkening days, let us remember ancient practices which saw times of rising darkness as time to act to return the light.