From Hope Lost to Hope Found
Reflection for the Third Sunday of Easter A Readings: 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:…
From Doubt to Trust
Reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter A Readings: Acts 2: 42-47 (RM) or 2: 14a, 22-32 (RCL); Psalm 118; 1 Peter 1: 3-9; John 20: 19-31. As I was…
From Darkness to Dawn
Reflection for Easter Sunday A Readings: Acts 10: 34a, 37-43 (RM) or 34-43 (RCL); Psalm 118; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20: 1-9 or Matthew 28:1-10 (RM in the U.S.), John 20:…
Death is Not the Last Word
Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent A Readings: Ezekiel 37: 12-14 (RM) or 1-14 (RCL); Psalm 130; Romans 8: 8-11 (RM) or 6-11 (RCL); John 11: 1-45. It may…
A Story Too Bodily to Forget
Reflection for the Feast of the Ascension C Readings: Acts 1: 1-11; Psalm 47; Ephesians 1: 17-23 (RM), or 15-23 (RCL) or Hebrews 9: 24-28, 10: 19-23 (RM); Luke 24:…
The First Day of the Week
A Reflection for Easter Sunday Readings: 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…
What Lives On After We Die?
Reflection for the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time C or the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany Readings: Jeremiah 17: 5-8 (RM) or 5-10 (RCL); Psalm 1; I Corinthians 15: 12, 16-20 (RM)…
The World in Our Eyes
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…
Death and Renewal of Creation
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 Visibility of Women in Scripture and Church
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…