How Do We Know?
I’ll confess right here: in my youth, I spent a good bit of psychic energy wrestling with myself and others over the question of whether Jesus’ post-Resurrection appearances could have been captured by a video camera. Behind the question was my tacit assumption that if the answer were, “No, a videotape would have shown nothing,” […]
How Then Shall We Live?
Some years back, a sniper drove around the greater D.C. area killing people at random for 23 days before being found and arrested. My children were teens then, and sending my family out into the world, and then choosing to move in the world the same ways I always had, made me newly aware that […]
Extravagant Abundance
Extravagant abundance was Jesus’ signature style. In today’s Gospel passage,* that unnerving profusion is manifested at Lake Gennesaret. Jesus tells Simon to take his boat back out in the lake and cast his fishing nets out again, though was exhausted from having just been fishing all night. After some well-justified resistance, Simon did as Jesus […]
Putting Out the Trash
“You brood of vipers!” These harsh words met those who had made the rough trip across hot desert sands to see the wild desert prophet, in his rough animal skins. John’s vehement condemnation was as shocking to their systems as an immersion in the frigid Jordan River would be. It is shocking for us, reading […]