The World in Our Eye
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…
Reflection for Easter Sunday B
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…
Reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fifth Sunday after Epiphany B
Job 7: 1-4, 6-7 (RM) or Isaiah 40: 21-31 (RCL); Psalm 147; 1 Corinthians 9: 16-19, 22-23 (RM) or 16-23 (RCL); Mark 1: 29-39. Don’t you sometimes wish you could…
Reflection for the Third Sunday of Easter A
Acts 2: 14, 22-33 (RM) or 2: 14a, 36-41(RCL); Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1: 17-21 (RM) or 17-23 (RCL); Luke 24: 13-35. “Christ is risen, Alleluia!” “Just as the women…
Reflection for Easter Sunday A
Acts 10: 34a, 37-43 (RM) or 34-43 (RCL); Psalm 118; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20: 1-9 (RM in the U.S.), John 20: 1-18 (RM in Canada), or Matthew 28: 1-10 or…
Joy is a Verb
I find myself today thinking, oddly, about joy. I say oddly because I am just coming out of the deepest, darkest of winter- an annual journey through the worst of…
Reflection for the Feast of the Ascension C
Acts 1: 1-11; Psalm 47; Ephesians 1: 17-23 or Hebrews 9: 24-28, 10: 19-23; Luke 24: 44-53 (RM in Canada) or 46-53 (RM in the U.S.)If your locality or your…
A Reflection for Easter Sunday
Acts 10: 34a, 37-43 (RM) or 34-43, or alt. Isaiah 65: 17-25 (RCL); Psalm 118; Colossians 3: 1-4 (RM) or 1 Corinthians 15: 19-26 or Acts 10: 34-43 (RCL); John…