Second Sunday of Advent (Year 4, NL)
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Bone chapels and their strange art
In catacombs, crypts, and ossuaries, I’ve seen the ugliness of death transformed into something beautiful.
Signs of Mary Magdalene in John 11
“If John’s christological confessor is also the first person the risen Jesus appears to,” says biblical scholar Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, “that could make her a competitor to Peter’s authority.”
March 26, Lent 5A, (John 11:1-45)
Martha hears Jesus’ promise, but she has a brother whose body is starting to decay.
Rowan Williams weaves theological reflection and poetry into drama
Shakeshafte and Other Plays explores the messiness of language and meaning.
Tears are a gift from God
They put us in touch with essential things that we know to be dear or wrong.
Living and leading from our mortality
“Yearning for life is a part of what it means to be human.”
Wombs and tombs (Pentecost B) (Ezekiel 37:1-14; Romans 8:22-27)
God’s Spirit before birth and after death
Prophesy to the breath (Ezekiel 37:1-14) Lent 5A
We practice our faith in the season of Lent so that we know what to do when things get harder.
Bringing forth Lazarus from a blank canvas
“Life is built, and then it stops, and then Christ reaches in and brings it forward again.”
The value of tears (John 11:32-44; Revelation 21:1-6a)
Jesus acts in response to real human suffering and actual human tears.
The U.S.-Mexico border, where migrants are hunted
What does it do to the body and spirit to be preyed upon constantly?