I have often availed myself of the wide place. I was having a moment of gratitude the other day when I realized that I was not wobbling, staggering, and swaying as I had been at other times in my… Continue reading

Several years ago, I was  browsing, looking for that quote from Aeschylus on the awful grace of God. Naturally, most links were to Bobby Kennedy's speech on that terrible night in 1968 when he had to inform the gathered crowd of the assassination… Continue reading

“This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.” – John 21:14 My favorite event in the early years of my schooling was neither recess nor lunch; it… Continue reading

   “LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. “– Psalm 8:1 Creation gets in our face over the matter of the excellent majesty and power of God.… Continue reading

"And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs." – Luke 24:13 I can’t help it. Whenever I am out on an open highway with no end in… Continue reading

"One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people." – Exodus 2:11 It was a day of awakening for Moses. It was not his best day, but it was a turning point out of which would come good. He saw what he had never seen before and… Continue reading

What is the sacrament of failure? It is the offering of reality that accepts the reality of our vulnerability, our flaws, our incapacity, and our wavering resolve in light of God's unwavering grace, mercy, and love. It is the simple… Continue reading

The gospel writers called the message of repentance, “good news,” not so much because we must, but also because WE CAN. What then is the core of the message when the contrast is so profound between repentance and death? And… Continue reading

God … can be trusted to do the right thing and to win! Continue reading

  "And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again."   Continue reading