...Jesus about the cleanliness codes that are a part of Jewish life: and in his exchange with them we glimpse a common thread that runs through all religions. For cleanliness...
...that they are embraced, and loved beyond telling. And now he comes to us. On this night he comes in a variety of ways: for one, in the bread of...
...evening let’s reflect on this abrupt conclusion in the earliest of the four gospels which have come down to us. We have, as in the other gospels, women coming to...
...further east. His name was Philip. He did not come with merchandise but with bizarre ideas. Most notable among these was the notion that one of his compatriots, a carpenter...
...a capital crime. Where had such anger come from? We are, I think, living through a period of underlying anger: anger at our politicians, anger at having to adapt our...
...will be an outworking, a concrete expression, of that table at which you host that feast, to which you invite people to come as they are and to come and...
...two communities but one, not two peoples but one spirit. To me, there is nothing fake or superficial about the joy of Barnabas. His joy is coming from a deep...
...here not only about how we communicate but about why we communicate, our underlying motivations. A former colleague used to say, ‘I’m not one to gossip, I’m telling you this...
...sheepfold is also the Thief who disrupts the complacent. Christ comes to comfort the disturbed, but also to disturb the comfortable. As individuals and communities, what is the role in...