Tag: Transfiguration

  • The Fear Blocks Them

    The Fear Blocks Them

    What these three disciples witness on the mountaintop is beyond most of our comprehension. And we, too, focus on the wrong things.

  • What you see and what you get

    What you see and what you get

    In the Transfiguration, Jesus’s change frightens the disciples because the spectacle itself marks a change in their reality.

  • Between the Fifth and Last Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)

    Between the Fifth and Last Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)

    The mountaintop event is saturated with the disciples’ confusion. And is the crux of what happens after they come down the mountain.

  • New Love

    New Love

    We encounter the Transfiguration with our own skewed vision of the world; and our precious place in it.

  • Around the Mountaintop

    Around the Mountaintop

    Dealing with the Transfiguration in August is very different than In February. Because we are in a different place.

  • The Transfiguration

    The Transfiguration

    The Transfiguration is one of the most impressive, confusing, and distracting stories about Jesus in Scripture.

  • Listening

    Listening

    The Transfiguration is not merely an event: it is a turning point in the work of teaching Jesus has been doing.

  • Between — The Big Sermon and the Transfiguration

    Between — The Big Sermon and the Transfiguration

    A lot happens before the Transfiguration. But something right before it colors how we might understand it.