Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Easter B
Acts 4: 8-12 (RM) or 5-12 (RCL); Psalm 118 (RM) or 23 (RCL); 1 John 3: 1-2 (RM) or 1 John 3: 16-24 (RCL); John 10: 11-18. Yes, it’s “Good…
Acts 4: 8-12 (RM) or 5-12 (RCL); Psalm 118 (RM) or 23 (RCL); 1 John 3: 1-2 (RM) or 1 John 3: 16-24 (RCL); John 10: 11-18. Yes, it’s “Good…
The recent solar eclipse of April 8th was applauded by many as a singular event, and the most viewed astronomical event in history. For humans who gathered in droves along…
Acts 3: 13-15, 17-19 (RM) or 12-19 (RCL); Psalm 4; 1 John 2:1-5a (RM) or 1 John 3:1-7 (RCL); Luke 24: 35-48 (RM) or 36b-48 (RCL.) It’s a quirky little…
It is Easter time, and I realize I enjoy Easter days. A sense of “I AM” everywhere, in the middle of the anxieties, the busyness of life, the fast-paced passing…
Acts 4: 32-35 (RM) or Acts 3:32-35 (RCL); Psalm 118 (RM) or 133 (RCL); 1 John 5: 1-6 (RM) or 1 John 1:1-2:2 (RCL); John 20: 19-31. I think most…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker recounts a moment in her life when she was 8 years old and one of her brothers shot her in the eye with a BB…
Isaiah 50: 4-7 (RM) or 4-9a (RCL); Psalm 22 (RM) or 31 (RCL); Philippians 2: 6-11 (RM) or 5-11 (RCL); Mark 14:1 – 15:47. It can feel like too much…
The other evening my favourite television channel PBS broadcast a documentary called Patrick and the Whale. The documentary follows marine videographer Patrick Dykstra as he searches for a particular whale…
Isaiah 50: 4-7 (RM) or 4-9a (RCL); Psalm 22 (RM) or 31 (RCL); Philippians 2: 6-11 (RM) or 5-11 (RCL); Mark 14:1 – 15:47.It can feel like too much to…
It is Monday morning, and I am at the Migrant Center of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Manhattan, one of a team of volunteers readying ourselves to…