Easter is bonkers
God despises bores. Easter reminds us of this. Put the redemption of the world into our hands, and we’d come up with something unimaginative, uninspiring, and probably much too believable.
Glorious apparel
Mightier than the sound of many waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea, mightier is the LORD who dwells on high.
Seeing Jesus before penitence: No return to the Gesimas
Epiphany has become a season, and that is a good thing.
Discs spinning
Asgeir sent my husband and me on a Norwegian music bender. Here's a short list of the music that's been both background and fuel for my sermon preparation and work the last few months.
An elusive joy at Easter
Maybe it's just me, but Easter joy has been harder to come by this year.
The blessing of confession
Some urge that confession be restricted to Lent in future liturgies. Yet to omit confession would also omit the great blessing we receive through the weekly challenge to confess, forgive, and be forgiven.
The river at Eastertide
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
Wrought in flesh, redeemed by flesh
The mystery and indeed the scandal of the Incarnation, the subject of Christmas and also Easter and Ascension Day, is that God took on flesh in space and time: middle-eastern, Jewish, male.