“Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”
Read MoreBut Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
John 20:24–25
Read MoreMary turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?”
Read MoreAfter saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him…”
Read MoreJesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live
Read MoreThrough learning to love each other in communities, we live into our nature as the reflection of the image of God, fulfilling the desire of God, which draws us closer to God.
Read MoreGod did not create humanity and then simply set it on its way to see what might happen.
Read MoreHumanity was created to be encircled in God's love and to encircle others in that love.
Read MoreThe concept of the Trinity is...complicated by how we choose to name the three persons of the Trinity.
Read MoreIs it possible that the very act of being together opens a path for the Holy Spirit to connect with us?
Read MoreWhen you think of the border, do you feel powerlessness, Church?
Read MoreYou are an asylum seeker. Maybe you got into a fight with the wrong person on the football field, and now you’re being threatened by one of the local gangs.
Read MoreBehind you stretches a series of footprints. They have brought you here, now. This here and this now, to which you have been pressing.
Read MoreI have spent some time on dusty roads—pilgrim’s ways that are steeped in equal parts history, mystery, and intention.
Read MoreThere was wind tearing down the treeless pasture, tangling my hair behind me. The ocean wrapped around me on three sides.
Read MoreMy kids and I counted the days we have been quarantined for COVID-19 today. The number is in the fifties. My eldest son looked at me and said, "Mom, that number makes me sad."
Read MoreWhy are we here?
As a student of philosophy, I usually read that question with the emphasis on the Why.
It feels like an uprising. An uprising of hope, not hate. An uprising armed with love, not weapons.
Read MoreJesus said, “Follow me.” Following a king who served and a savior who died is not easy. It is a difficult way. Change. Sorrow.
Read MoreThe blood was dried in drops along his left side. Near his shoulder they were round, rusty brown disks, stiff and dry. Near his waist they were oblong, having fallen a greater distance.
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