Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! This is a classic question that daily bedevils the person who feels lost or afraid or trapped or wonders what the right thing might be, whatever it is—that sense of wanting to know what one is supposed to do in the moment—is asked of priests in churches, gurus on …
A Word: The Widow’s Might
The normalcy of a remarkable lifeProper 27B | Mark 12:38-44 Digging into this gospel, let us remember the scene—Jerusalem, the end of the road. The final test. It is Tuesday of that time we call Holy Week. Jesus arrived on Sunday with great fanfare. Then came to the Temple on …
Jesus for President
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! I’m writing this to you before Election Day in the United States, and as the people anticipate its outcome, we are reminded to look past a president for our leadership. Shane Claiborne recast the traditional political statement for us in a book of the same …