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Mountain Talk — Command and Love In a Time of Fear
The story around the Transfiguration helps us better understand what is being said up that mountain — and what it all means for us.
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Forgetting to Listen — for Epiphany LastA
In the Transfiguration, the very voice of God tells them to listen to Jesus — at the very time when they aren’t and will not out of fear and hubris.
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Transfigure — where seeing meets believing
To deal with the transfiguration of Jesus, we must deal with the limitations of our vision, of our sense of real, of the world itself.
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What we tend to do when life gets complicated
It is easy, in the midst of confusion to not know who to listen to, so we can stop listening to anybody, including the one we need to hear.
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We need something beyond humility
A tension in the Transfiguration event is how Jesus responds afterward — in decrying to the people’s faithlessness.
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In their confusion, a voice — for Epiphany Last C
The Transfiguration is a big, bold event, full of bombast, but present are disciples who are confused and frustrated. Much like we are.
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Transfigured — We are more than what we look like
The appearance and substance of Jesus is too often treated as separate, and relating to matter rather than our experience of him.
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When we don’t want to listen to Jesus
What they will deduce from the story is that Jesus’s appearance changed. And then the second sentence is: And that’s it.