Jesus, Interrupted
As someone who can be the tiniest bit rigid about my plans and my time, one thing I love about Jesus is how willing he was to be interrupted. Several of my favorite gospel stories start with a formula: While Jesus was going about his business, something happened – a person was in need of […]
You Are Beloved
On this weekend celebrating the baptism of Jesus, I find myself reflecting on my own baptism. I was just a baby so don’t remember it; but as Jesus had been presented in the Temple as a baby, my parents were proclaiming my life as God’s and our life as part of a larger church community. […]
Celebration!
The Christmas story, in many ways, reminds me of the story Jesus tells about the Great Banquet (Luke 14), where a man prepares a feast, only to have his invited guests bow out one by one. With everything ready, his servants go into town to bring “the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame”. […]
Dwell
The old canvas tents of my childhood smelled like earth wrapped in twine. A moving shelter, I learned how to pitch them and to sleep upon the body of creation. Inside, I dreamed of being in a Bedouin caravan traveling across deserts or with the magi moving by starlight, searching for signs. A sanctuary held […]
