Peter denied Christ three times and we don’t refer to him as ‘Denying Peter.’ James and John were always bragging, and we don’t hold that over their heads for 2000 years. Yet Thomas, despite all he did, despite the mighty grace of God, is forever branded doubting Thomas. We are going to correct this injustice…

‘Pray as though everything depended on God; work as though everything depended on you.’ A call to prayer and works to help resolve the unacceptable humanitarian crisis in Artsakh.

Everybody has a backstory. Getting to know them helps us grow closer together, have empathy for each other and integrate out lives. All of our church sacraments are made richer by tell our own personal backstories as well as the older and deeper stories which give meaning to all of life.

This selfless love for a friend, it seems to me, is the miraculous love which propelled four friends to seek Jesus, and the love which Jesus uses to heal us, then and now. Somehow we were made from the beginning is a way that together we can endure the worst trials of life, paralysis, sickness…

The good news though is that the solution to our problem is as simple as the cure, not easy, but simple.  Believe in your light, but believe even more deeply in its source, transfigured and radiant before us today and every day.  Stay awake. Keep your eyes and ears open to the illuminating words and…

I don’t know about you, but forget multiplying loaves or turning water into wine, I want the super-power which turns annoying interruptions into meaningful ministry, which turns my deep sorrows and anger into deep compassion and passion, which turns ‘me’ time into ‘we’ time.  In a word I guess I want the superpower of love…

I want to wish you a happy Independence Day as well as the lesser-known Interdependence day. Interdependence day is of course not an official holiday, I made it up, but if we want to tell the truth of what it means to lead a good life, especially a good Christian life, we should start celebrating…