In loving another person, love is generative. Love-making is life-making, for loving is a way toward love itself, life itself, the hidden ground of love.
When Jesus asks James and John whether they can “drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized,” without any hesitation they answer, “We are able.”
September 15 | Pentecost 17, Year B
Prov. 1:20-33 or Isa. 50:4-9a
Ps. 19 or Wis. 7:26-8:1 or Ps. 116:1-8
James 3:1-12
Mark 8:27-38
Ask any teacher. Students who...