Love Stronger Than Death
Perhaps it is my age. I will turn eighty in July 2025, and I am becoming increasingly aware of death. Death as a reality that comes for me too. Death…
Is God a Superman in the Sky?
Reflection for the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time B / Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Daniel 12: 1-3; Psalm 16; Hebrews 10: 11-14, 18 (RM) or 18-25 (RCL); Mark 13:…
Collective Memory: Treasuring Our Past
On the last weekend of October, nine RNDMs from Melbourne travelled to the small Victorian country town of Charlton where four RNDMs arrived one hundred years ago to assume responsibility…
The Poor Widow’s Offering
Reflection for the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time B / Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: I Kings 17: 10-16 (RM) or 8-16 (RCL); Psalm 146; Hebrews 9: 24-28; Mark 12:…
The Landscape: Nature and Emotions
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' - Sylvia Plath, writer, in The Bell…
Luther and Ongoing Church Reform
Reflection for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time B / Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Deuteronomy 6: 2-6 (RM) or 1-9 (RCL); Psalm 18 (RM) or 119 (RCL); Hebrews 7:…
Stepping Into Another World
From my window I gaze daily at the falling leaves of many mighty trees and columns of green shapes and designs. Yet, at a closer look, nothing seems to be…
Reflection for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time B / Pentecost 23
Jeremiah 31: 7-9; Psalm 126; Hebrews 5: 1-6 (RM) or 7: 23-28 (RCL); Mark 10: 46-52. ELCA/ELCIC if celebrating Reformation Sunday: Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Psalm 46; Romans 3: 19-28; John…
Becoming a Digital Missionary
“To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know. Thus, writing requires a real act of trust. We have to say to ourselves: “I…
Reflection for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time B / Pentecost 22
Isaiah 53: 10-11 (RM) or 53: 4-12 (RCL); Psalm 33; Hebrews 4: 14-16 (RM) or 5: 1-10 (RCL); Mark 10: 35-45. “Same Baptism. Same Spirit. Same Calling.” The motto circles…