John

God has become clear in the person of Jesus.

After an attempted coup in Indonesia in 1965, headlines reported that 500,000 people were killed. What did not make the headlines was the quiet revolution that began as the wind of the Spirit began to move into a collapsed intellectual and moral vacuum. There was no ballyhoo or promotion, but simply the response of untold numbers who found in the churches a haven.

Love is the lightest of responsibilities. The difficulty is when we take up the labor before the love.

A strange king is likely to have a strange kingdom, and the kingdom of Jesus is no exception. The kingdom of Christ is a multilateral community, marked by a deep mutual love and an ongoing push to ever greater love. Our difficulty is not in envisioning the image of community. Our trouble comes with the necessity of confronting those situations in which community is broken, or worse, in which human beings are attacking other human beings. What are the international implications of these readings?

The disciples locked in the room need help in practicing resurrection.

If you’re Eli, you’re not sleeping that well when the boy comes trotting in to disturb you with his nonsense.

Who am I? Who are you? Not the Messiah.

In the original Christian Pentecost are seeds of a universalist impulse, a catholic principle.

Paul refuses to let God become just another novelty.

Mary can’t experience the resurrected Jesus for the disciples, and the disciples can’t experience Jesus for Thomas.

This is not a metaphorical desert. Left alone here at high noon, Jesus could die without water.

Portrayed as a cowardly dolt, Nicodemus is usually spotted skulking about under cover of darkness.

You can’t micromanage a road trip. The wind blows where it wills.

You can’t micromanage a road trip. The wind blows where it wills.