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A slave, then a dead man, next a prostitute, and now a madman – Luke...

The woman on the floor, in John Beraud's painting, brings the world’s oldest profession into the...

Jesus intervenes in death three times, according to the memories of his friends.  All four...

It’s a small story, and briefly told in Luke’s gospel:  Some elders among the Jewish...

Genesis 1, the beautiful hymn to Imago Dei, the One God, opens the Bible by...

Religion and terror -  inseparable in Jesus’ time, explosive in our own.  Their combustible fusion...

The epiphanies of Easter draw to their end, the forty days of unexpected sightings, memorable...

On April first, in the spirit of foolishness and in the longing for spring, women...

Now the cycle of Easter stories circles back upon itself.  The circle does not return...

It was the Festival of Dedication, John writes.  Now it is called Hanukah, an eight...

There isn’t much to tell, tomorrow when I go down to Goodmorning and How are...

My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider...

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing...

The legends of Judas are burned into the story of Holy Week unforgettably.  Over the...

Please note:  Unless otherwise cited below, this service was written by, or adapted from the...

Readings A Reading                                                          from Markings, by Dag Hammarskjold* I don't know who - or what...

“. . . . once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who...

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see...

Everyone knows the great energies running amok cast terrible shadows, that each of the so-called...

The field tells none of its turned story                  it lies under its low cloud like...

There are so very many ways to get lost.  And most of them include some...

It’s bleak midwinter – February – and black history month, when the long wintry shadow...

Light is our perennial winter theme.  Epiphany, the season of lights and signs, reveals something...

“Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” Jesus said it.  According to Luke,...

The Gospel of John is a book of signs.  Each sign, each epiphany, emanates from...

This is the season of lights, the season of signs, the season of epiphanies.  The...

Moving slowly, they emerge from the darkness of human imagination, first as the rippling of...

Christmas Day  (Unknown Painter.  From Vanderbilt Divinity School Library, Art in the Christian Tradition)  In...

Christmas Eve (detail from painting by Giotto di Bernardone, Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Art in the...

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned . ....