How then, do we heal? What do we do with the wounds? In our Eucharistic Prayer C we proclaim together, “By his wounds, we are healed.” Jesus appeared to the disciples in the Upper Room with his wounds saying, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” God has sent Jesus to them—to us—with his wounds in the ongoingness of life after trauma and death.… Read More
Can we, with the women, hear the voice of the messenger who simply proclaims, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised.”… Read More
All of which brings me to the book of Numbers, fourth book in the Old Testament, not your typical Bible hotspot. Now we’re here with serpents in the wilderness and being bitten, people dying, in an exodus from slavery. We are present in the company of Moses: “So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it on a pole, and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.” What an amazing story. Where did that come from?… Read More
Too often it seems like we are living in the “in between” times. We can’t go back to the way things were, yet we live in both hope and fear … Read More
Christmas Eve Service, 7 pm in the St. Luke’s Chapel It is both a joy and a privilege to be with you in this special chapel on this holy night. … Read More
Respite Halifax, Nova Scotia, right on the edge of the Atlantic, has the second deepest, largest, ice-free harbor in the world, second only to Sydney, Australia. Thousands of people, tens … Read More
Christ the King Sunday Evidently I have not experienced enough cycles with the lectionary to know when the challenging passages come around. I thought Christ the King Sunday would have … Read More
If we are to be ready for whatever lies ahead, we must choose love this day. And we will need to keep choosing it when the way becomes unclear or difficult; when we are anxious and afraid; when we are harmed by others. We choose love as an article of faith and the most powerful response to any situation.… Read More
The gift of imagination begins with the child—the child within us still, and among us always. And if Brown is right, and I believe she is, then the church’s central task is an imaginative one, and we need the children. For childhood is an immersion in awe and wonder, isn’t it.… Read More
This is one of the ways we may think about the ministry of Jesus. Jesus rummaged through a lot of stuff in order to unearth that one thing, that one special heirloom that was hidden, buried, lost. By unearthing the heirloom, dusting it off, and setting before the people as front and center, Jesus was doing the work of fulfilling God’s law. And what he unearthed was the greatest commandment which was more than a remembrance of the past, it was life-giving.… Read More