Entering In
Lent – Year A – Matthew 4:1-11 All of us need wake-up calls and the opportunity to start over, which is some of what Lent offers to us. From Ash Wednesday’s sober reminder that we come from a common source, that in our very substance we are the same—no more than, or less than, good […]
Reading Our Lives
For Sunday, March 13, 2016 – John 12:1-8 Reading the gospel is a bit like reading life itself. On the journey we get to meet and learn from a whole bunch of characters, ourselves included. We can choose to breezily skim the surface of the story, picking up little scraps of wisdom to enjoy at […]
The Power of Food
For Sunday, March 6, 2016 – Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 One of his best known stories, the one about a father’s grand celebration over the return of a renegade son, comes by way of Jesus responding to a complaint. A growing number of the region’s outcasts has been congregating around him. He is as apt now to be found […]
The Meaning of the Missing
For Sunday, February 28, 2016 – Luke 13:1-9 “Mind the gap,” the disembodied voice warns passengers stepping onto a London train. Notice what is not there in plain sight. Pay attention to the empty spaces, what you do not see. Jesus, too, urges us to be alert to the absent. Empty branches hang heavy with […]
