Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year C, RCL)

If our faith cannot help us escape tribulations, then what should we do when we face them?

God swallowing up death indicates the ultimate defeat of sorrow and chaos.

Simeon and Anna echo the worship material of ancient Israel.

When our church offered Rosa sanctuary, our ordinary habits became a politics of hospitality.

People sometimes regress to childlike behavior in stressful situations.

Peter is hardly the first person to challenge the status quo because of something God told him in a dream.

It often works pretty well for us.

God called all of them good. Humans are rapidly destroying them.

The psalmist puts out a clarion call.

Here we find Jesus speaking in language both mystical and matter of fact.

The beloved song can contain God’s glory no more than the scripture it’s based on.

Jesus acts in response to real human suffering and actual human tears.

Do we really want God to live with us in a poisoned and degraded world?

John of Patmos presents readers of Revelation with fantastical visions of what life could be, just as Dickens does to Scrooge.