Mar 24, 2024 | Easter, Lent
As an ass, playing the role of jester? As the outlandish actor in the scene, cast to make the comfortable laugh and the disenchanted daydream? As a stone, the unseen understudy? As the patient watcher in the wings, ready to leap up and shout one line if only the leads...
Apr 6, 2023 | discipleship, Lent, resurrection
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. – Exodus 12:1-2 (NRSV) The shadows of Lent have almost reached their longest hour. The tension of Holy Week is...
Apr 2, 2023 | blessing, relationships
Hail and hallelujah! Welcome, and praise be for your safe arrival. We were not the same without you, but now joy and hope have multiplied within us. Hail and hosanna! Come by here, and let us honor your journey. We will break bread to nourish you, and share tears to...
Apr 15, 2022 | death, lament, relationships
How often I’ve thought it would come to this: a battle, a stand-off with swords, a line in the sand between powers; me against you my ally turned into my foe because you were never an ally I trusted; uncertainty mutated into self-doubt projected into...
Apr 14, 2022 | death, Jesus, prayer
Love me until the end, O Christ, until the ashes of this body match the dust of these feet, and together they fold into the holiness of earth’s soil. Love me until the end, O Christ, until every word is finished and every argument laid to rest in the shallow...
