Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Reflecting on the concept of rest this week, I’m reminded of a book I read last year: Saving Time by Jenny Odell is a brilliant meditation on time, life, and purpose. She breaks open our common understanding of time as something linear, physical, like a commodity …
A Word: Choosing to Avoid
Herod’s twisted morality of absolutionProper 10B | Mark 6:14-29 Herod Antipas throws a party and tells his step daughter she can have whatever she wants. He asks her. And what she picks…is a little murder. Just, you know, an execution. A beheading to be precise. To offer her a …
Priority
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! In this week’s gospel, King Herod begins to crack up as he remembers what he did: he had someone kill John the Baptizer and put his head on a platter to fulfill an open-ended promise to his daughter. Its a weird, tragic story, full of emotions and our own moral …