It’s all about relationship: “Early in her relationship with her God, Israel discovered that her religion was unlike the fertility religions of her neighbors, which reenacted the stories of the gods. Her faith is not about the battles and love affairs of the gods...
Jesus turns the world upside down, making us see like newborns? In the physics of light, the image projected on the retina is upside down. Our brain reorients it for us. But newborns for their first few weeks actually see upside down. ...
Two brothers, aged 8 and 11, were notoriously naughty, sometimes virtually out of control. They had such a reputation that whenever some mischief took place at school or at church, the assumption of the boys’ parents and teachers was that they were involved in some...
I don’t agree with Rilke, but it is great writing. And it can be a great foil for teaching on how God will not be without a witness, but God cares for every witnesser as much as the witness. “If I don’t take flight, someone else will, the Lord wants… To access...
Sometimes the hardest things to see are the most obvious. Could this be one reason why the disciples had such a hard time recognizing Jesus in his post-resurrection appearances? There is a story told about a man in West Berlin who worked in the eastern sector of that...
In the museum of modern art (MoMA) in New York City, an elderly man sat before a painting by one of the greatest of modern artists. The man was obviously highly elated. Over and over he kept saying, “At last, I’m in my rightful place. I’m in my rightful place.…...
