When the Friend Comes
“There is so much to say, but you just won’t understand it now.”* Like talking to a child about growing old, there are no tools with which to work. It cannot be taught. Only lived. Jesus knows that his time is short. His bewildered friends listen as he promises not to leave them as orphans… […]
The Road Ahead
Fresh from lonely desert life, dust still under his fingernails, Mary and Joseph’s son came home to teach. Home from the wilderness to the place and people who raised him. His work would begin here. The place looks and feels different… smaller somehow. From the seat in his childhood sabbath meeting house, a place where […]
Solidarity
Way out on the margins, on the ragged edge of town far from the temple, the ragged voice of the wild baptizing prophet rang out. (People were beginning to think that John was the One). “I’m just setting the stage”, he says. “The One who is coming will change us all from the inside out.”* […]
When Things Fall Apart
The student’s heads were on a swivel, necks craning to take in the grandeur and elegance of the temple—impressed by this great work of human hands. “It’s all going to come tumbling down”, says Jesus.* On a high place, across from this house of God, Jesus warns his friends that fake leaders will soon appear, […]
