Many powerful men have been in the news recently. Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein callously used his power and position to force women into having sex with him. He did it…
Paul writing to the mostly Gentile Church in Ephesus, proclaimed: “Now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For…
Five weeks ago on Tuesday, May 15, as I began to settle in on the plane, awaiting takeoff from San Francisco Airport, I learned that our flight back home to…
There are three very different groups identified in today’s Gospel passage from Mark. First there were the crowds. The crowds were hungry for Jesus’ ministry. There were the sick in…
In Godly play we give children a visual theological foundation that underlies a story, such as how we baptize. The beginning of the story is God who is Father, (lay…
We get a Reader’s Digest condensed version of a truly remarkable story in our Acts of the Apostles scripture lesson this (morning). It might seem like a quaint vignette about…
Back in 1988 Bono and his bandmates in U2 wrote a song in tribute to the great bluesman BB King and famously performed it with him on their album, Rattle…
The door was locked. The disciples were gathered inside that upper room. They were deeply unsettled, surprised, scared and yet hopeful about the news they were hearing from some in…
Happy Easter and April Fool’s Day! The last time Easter and April Fool’s Day coincided was back in 1956 and it won’t happen again for another 19 years. When I…
Every Eucharist is a participation in Jesus’ passion, a mini-Holy Week and Easter. We remember and reenact Jesus’ Last Supper. We recall his death for us on a cross. We…