Practice Resurrection
“Come and have breakfast.” This is the risen Christ’s invitation to his disciples in today’s post-resurrection encounter.* Some readers of this gospel story focus on the miracle of an overabundance of fish suddenly manifesting at Jesus’ instruction where a night of fishing by his disciples had been for naught. For me the miracle is in […]
The Start of a New World – May 3, 2019
“The challenge of Easter is in fact the challenge of a new creation. It offers itself not as an odd event within the world as it is, but as the utterly prototypical, foundational event within the world as it has begun to be. It is not an absurd event within the old world, but the […]
The Wager is This – May 1, 2019
“The wager is this: that Jesus, the living master, is real, alive, intimately and vibrantly enfolding you right now. He is more present, in fact, than even your breath and your heartbeat. But to really know this presence you need to tune in on a different wavelength: to shift to the heart frequency where this […]
To Be Called
“Like a mother’s early morning call to awaken, Mary Magdalene recognized him by the calling of her name.* Hearing our own names, we sit bolt upright in the tomb, folding the shroud that had covered our faces. To see and be seen is to be raised up. To be able to watch the opening and […]
