Monthly Archives: March 2016
I’m betting your church, like mine, was full this past Sunday. I’m sure the music was amazing and your pastor/priest gave a stirring sermon/homily specially designed to reach the people who were there only because it was Easter.
You’ve heard of “C & E” Christians – those who only come to…..
An imagining of Anna on Easter, with inspiration from Luke 24
This morning we’ve awakened to the most amazing news. Some of the women who went to Jesus’ tomb saw him alive! The news is spreading like wildfire and everyone has an opinion. I pointed out that we know Jesus can bring people back from the…..
An imagining of Anna on Good Friday
They’ve crucified him! Abba says it’s true. None of us could believe it when the word came this morning that he’d been taken to the Romans. We knew the Temple priests had it in for Jesus, but selling him out to the Romans?
The Romans…..
A further imagining of Anna’s time in Jerusalem
Something is wrong.
We’ve been in Jerusalem since last week, making it just in time to celebrate the last Sabbath in the Temple before the Passover.
Jesus only came the next day. It was glorious the day he arrived. He came into the city on a…..
An imagining based on Luke 8:40-56
We leave tomorrow morning at dawn. I’ve never been so excited to go to Jerusalem before, even though I’ve gone at least twelve times. I guess maybe even more, since some years we’ve gone for all three holidays. Abba tries to set a good…..
I spent last week in London on a theatre tour. Aside from being a great time, seeing seven plays in eight days reminded me once again of the value of stories, especially ones that are told well.
Stories invite us into the lives of others in ways that ordinary interactions with real…..
We love stories that pit the good guys against the bad, especially when, with the odds against them, the “good” win.
But how accurate is this scenario? As an English teacher I would encourage my students to appreciate that realistic heroes are never purely good, nor are villains devoid of merit……