Give Us This Day
We gathered in a circle to wash each other’s feet. Slowly, the bowl and towel passed around the circle, until it was Christina Cathcart’s turn to wash someone’s feet: mine. Read more
We gathered in a circle to wash each other’s feet. Slowly, the bowl and towel passed around the circle, until it was Christina Cathcart’s turn to wash someone’s feet: mine. Read more
Let’s try an experiment in reading John 12 today. Read more
The reason the world seems devoid of God and desacralized (or secularized) is not that God Himself is gone but that we live in darkness. Read more
The wonderful things are wonderful, and the lufrednow things are also wonderful because I am with Him in all things. Read more
“Behold, your King is coming to you, lowly and riding on a donkey.” John’s Gospel doesn’t have the word “lowly,” as does Zechariah’s prophecy, but it is the word I most want to focus on this morning. The disciples did not at this time understand these things. Only after Jesus was glorified did they remember and understand them. Only after Jesus died on the Cross, was raised from the dead by the power of God, ascended into heaven, sat at... Read more
The Bethany Trinity Read more
the pragmatic thing is often the cowardly thing Read more
But Lord, he stinketh! Read more
I wonder a lot about how the Gospel comes down to us in particular, pre-packaged forms. I wonder about how it is that certain semi-official versions of the Gospel became semi-official versions; about how and when John 3:16 became the verse of the Bible; about how Thomas became merely “Doubting Thomas”; about how faithful Joseph became the forgotten man of Christmas; and about how Mary came to be seen as the true defender of the faith over Martha. In John... Read more
Why are We Allowed to Suffer? Read more
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