Ears to Hear: A Litany for Listening One to the Other
I am a person of strong conviction and intense moral righteousness. I have a lot of… Read More
Today's Disciplines Devotion
If you have trouble appreciating this parable in which everybody behaves badly toward everybody else, you’re not alone. The interaction between the two groups of bridesmaids reads like a scene from...
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Moses himself was an example of one who was selected to reveal the extraordinary. And in today’s reading, we hear through Moses that God declares, “I will raise up for them...
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The division that emerged over how to respond to the pandemic has only highlighted the deep divides that were already present beneath the surface. There are times when I wonder if...
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Though Mark’s writing is concise, this scene from the Galilean seaside is evocative. Jesus is walking along the water’s edge watching the fisherman in their boats a little way off shore,...
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If there is a perfect season to wait for God in silence, it must be winter. During this time of year all of creation seems to slow down and cozy up....
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When Jonah first hears God’s voice calling him to go to Nineveh, he does not drop what he’s doing and follow God’s lead like the disciples in Mark’s Gospel. He does...
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The immediacy of Mark has always been startling to me. With no birth story to ease us into the life of Jesus, we are thrown right in with a wild character...
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Yesterday we read Paul’s words to the Corinthians urging them to put our time here on earth into perspective in the light of Christ. Today we turn to the Psalms for...
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I was in the passenger’s seat of my friend’s red, late 90s Pontiac Grand Prix when he ran a red light and pulled directly into oncoming traffic, resulting in another vehicle...
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Between my nephews and my own children, I have been blessed to be a part of a birthing team five times. On five separate occasions, I have been handed the scissors...
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Twice a year every year—usually around New Year’s Day and then again at the beginning of summer—I get this bold idea that I am going to start working out and get...
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