Friday, April 11, 2025
Whataboutism wasn’t just invented a few years ago. This technique of distracting attention from the real problem to something less important or pertinent has been going on at least two millennia. Jesus confronts it when he encounters the woman at the well. The Samaritan woman had a chaotic life with a string of husbands. We… Read more
Thursday, April 10, 2025
My husband and I consider ourselves oenophiles—lovers of wine. We enjoy tasting different wines and have laid down some lovely bottles in our wine cellar that we are saving for special occasions—birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries. We look forward to sharing them over a delicious meal with the special people in our lives. Anticipating the future… Read more
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
John begins his Gospel with the same words that open the whole story of God with his people in the book of Genesis: in the beginning. Genesis goes on to detail the good universe God created, including the humans who were meant to have a special relationship with God. John will use his Gospel to… Read more
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
I can’t imagine what it must have been like for those who witnessed Jesus’ death to also experience his resurrection. Talk about mind-blowing to run across the person of Jesus in the flesh, hungry and walking among you after you had seen him crucified and buried. What would it take for them to wrap their… Read more