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The faith of Daniel

April 12, 2021 No Comments

We are children of God and, like Daniel, we also live in an imperial culture. What does our culture name us?

What is your response to meeting the risen Lord in the Upper Room of the Soul? Have you wrapped your mind around the fact of his wounds? Christ has conquered death through going all the way through it. What does that mean for each of us? What does it mean for you?

As Low Sunday looms…

April 10, 2021 No Comments

Every once in a while, I sit and think about one of my first ever challenging youth group kids, who, instead of sitting down with and having a hard conversation without relationship, I just continually loved on, showed respect to, and got to watch Jesus change her life instead. We can preach and teach and lecture and “pull aside,” but if we don’t have love, our clanging cymbals will drive someone away from truth. Love draws in.

Christianity and the care of creation

April 10, 2021 No Comments

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the

Roundup: Condolences on the Passing of Prince Philip

April 9, 2021 No Comments

A number of Anglican and Roman Catholic prelates have been among those offering condolences to the Royal Family on the death of Prince Philip earlier

Holy Mackerel

April 9, 2021 No Comments

Jesus eats with his disciples after the Resurrection to reassure them and to once again declare his steadfast fellowship with them, regardless of their doubts, their despair, and their previous weaknesses. There is nothing fishy about this, either. Jesus continues to be Jesus even after his Passion, death, and resurrection—for the disciples, and for us. That humble piece of fish becomes part of Jesus’s body as a testimony to the power of God to vanquish even the power of death.