The Archive
Category: Speaking to the Soul
Two Healings
For me these stories are narrative pictures of how Jesus can restore us to health and community.
The Call
Everyday Mysteries With others she manages a website for the Diocese of Colorado highlighting congregations’ creative ministries:
Balance and Focus
Early in the morning, at daybreak, Luke tells us that Jesus “departed and went into a deserted place.” This is one of a number of times in Luke’s account when he speaks of Jesus’ praying. Jesus finds time alone with God. In that time alone, he is able to find direction and clear self-definition.
Casting Out Fear
The message and spirit of today’s reading seems timely in the wake of the shocking bombing yesterday at the Boston Marathon. Such cruel acts intend to sow fear and to invite hate. If we are to be helpful in responding to this kind of evil, we will need embrace another way.
Jesus Stirring up Trouble
What if the church today were to adopt Jesus’ agenda? We wouldn’t be too popular either.
Seeing through the “retrospectoscope”
Daily Office readings for Sunday, April 14: Psalm 148, 149, 150 (Morning) Psalm 114, 115 (Evening) Daniel 4:1-18 1 Peter 4:7-11 John 21:15-25 Psalm 115
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Then Nebuchadnezzar was so filled with rage against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face was distorted. He ordered the furnace to be heated up
Contradictions
This first half of the third chapter of 1st John I find problematic. The writer is setting up an expectation that can only lead either to pride or anxiety, it seems to me.
What abides in me
Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in