A Public Confession: You were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil. -Genesis 3:19b (CEB) On this Ash Wednesday I would like to make a public confession. Those of you who will read or listen to it, will serve as my priest. Thank you in
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Readings: Genesis 9:8-17, Psalm 25:1-10, 1 Peter 3:18-22, Mark 1:9-15 Seven people sat in a dimly lit circle in an otherwise empty sanctuary, ready for weekly catechism. On tonight’s agenda was the flood, when Noah’s family of eight boards a massive boat and holds out for forty days as God
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Mark 8:31-38 I always like to say that my daughter, who is seven and disabled, is extra-verbal: her actions, her eyes, her smile, her vocalizations, though not words, speak volumes. In fact, over the last seven years of her life, she’s patiently ministered to me as a non-disabled person in
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Cleansing the Temple of Performative Allyship13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both
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Numbers 21:4-9 and John 3:14-21 Lent is a time for ugly truths. Here’s one-we are sinners, and the world as it is–is not sustainable. I understand sin as being out of fellowship and communion with God and fellow humans. When we no longer acknowledge God as a source of love
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John 12:20-33 What Do I Want? God, Here we are again this year. We have slogged through Lent and now we are climbing Golgotha on our way to a bright and clean Easter morning, where we meet You, Light Incarnate, in the garden. I feel like most people around me
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Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever[1]. Okay, God. I believe that you are good, and I’m trying to believe that you are love, but this whole forever business? If this year’s taught me anything, it’s that nothing I thought was stable is
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John 12:1-8, NRSV An Autistic Perspective on the Anointing at Bethany Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary
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Seeing Each Other as Beloved Children of God Isaiah 49:1-7 • Psalm 71:1-14 • 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 • John 12:20-36 In the readings for today, we hear about how if we follow God, we are the children of God. In the Gospel of John, we hear the foreshadowing of the
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Hebrews 12:1-312:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 12:2 looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of
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Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14 • Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19 • 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 • John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Death, blood, deliverance, community, sacrifice, and love. These words stand out upon reflecting on Christ’s last meal on earth. He expectantly waited and prepared to complete the culmination of his purpose on earth. To
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“Jesus, the Disabled Empath” “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed into the Heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our profession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but
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Time Stands, and Lies, Still on Holy Saturday Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16 How many days, months, years did it feel like for Jesus as He lay in the tomb? How many years older are all of us since last March? How devastatingly alone and hopeless did He feel? How much longer
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