Yesterday on a family zoom call my brother was bemoaning the state of the country. “I thought with the vaccine things would get better. I thought with a new president people would be kinder. When are we going to get back to normal?” The Bible certainly understands societal disaster but it also suggests we need… Read More »
APRIL62021
In the Resurrection stories Jesus does not hang around. He dramatically appears to someone but does not let them “hold onto” him. Instead, he sends them back to the community. After greeting Mary Magdalene he tells her “go to my brothers.” The gospels suggest that the only way we come to understand what resurrection means… Read More »
APRIL52021
In the days and weeks after Easter we read from the Acts of the Apostles. These stories tell us that the Resurrection of Jesus was not something that only transformed him. His followers, the apostles and disciples, were transformed as well at the Resurrection of Jesus. Before the Resurrection they were fear-filled, vacillating, doubting; after,… Read More »
APRIL42021
Some stories are too good to be true. Lucy is not going to hold that football this time so that Charlie Brown can kick it. You really aren’t going to get a million dollars from the prince of Wakanda if you just send him your bank account number. That car really doesn’t have such a… Read More »
APRIL32021
This is from an ancient sermon (about 180AD) concerning Holy Saturday: “Something strange is happening — there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and He… Read More »
APRIL22021
In the days when Christ was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. This is the way the Epistle to the Hebrews talks about the scene in Gethsemane. Remember he… Read More »
APRIL12021
As we read in the Epistle, on the night before he died, Jesus had supper for the last time with his friends. During the meal he took bread, blessed it, broke it and shared it. We follow his commandment to do as he did in memory of him every Sunday, indeed, every day, as we… Read More »
April 4 2021
April 4 2021 (Easter Sunday)
MARCH312021
“What are you willing to give me?” That is the question Judas asked. Whenever we find ourselves asking “what’s in it for me” we are asking the Judas question. Any sports fan can tell you that when a member of a team focuses on his playing time or the amount of points she is scoring… Read More »
MARCH302021
St. John’s gospel was carefully written. Even in the midst of telling the story the fourth evangelist throws in little phrases that make you pause and think. For example, at the Last Supper when Jesus is confronting his betrayer, dealing with his denier, and predicting his abandonment St. John adds: And it was night. Earlier in… Read More »
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