Luke

I've long identified with Mary's fire. Now I want to learn from Elizabeth.

I've long identified with Mary's fire. Now I want to learn from Elizabeth.

Sometimes the terror we know is more tolerable than the peace we can’t imagine.

Do antisemitic appeals to the Bible always constitute an abuse of scripture? Would that it were so simple.

It can be excruciating to long for something just out of reach.

What can we see with the light in our eyes?

Who are these women to say such things?

The resurrection is an old, old message. But I need to be reminded.

Jesus’ parables ought to alarm us, draw us short.

When we hear Jesus retort, “Tell that fox….,” we have to keep in mind the litany of intersections between Jesus, his followers, and the Herodian dynasty.

“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”

“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”

We recognize ourselves in those who accompany Jesus on that longest, hardest night.

We recognize ourselves in those who accompany Jesus on that longest, hardest night.

Part of me thinks Palm Sunday worship is all too much—too loud, too celebratory.

When the vandals took Art’s gnome, they took his joy.

When the vandals took Art’s gnome, they took his joy.

Jesus enacts the very things we humans have been unable to enact on our own.