Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year C, RCL)

There is no greater evidence of how much Letha Dawson Scanzoni valued relationships than her letters.

The challenges to unity are great. The reward of unity is tremendous.

The reading from Revelation skips over lines that will likely put off many hearers.

I want to know why grace was extended to the Philippian jailer but not the slave.

Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”

Each tree in my neighborhood is the tree of life.

“Being in Jesus” is John’s theological language to describe a state of communion essential for our faith.

Jesus wants us all around the table. That can be really, really hard.

One of the gifts of the lectionary is that a biblical text wears different vestments depending on when it shows up for Christian worship.

The reading from Revelation 22 concludes the book’s resurrection songs: the baptized enjoy the fruits of the tree of life.  But the tree is not merely one of the countless archetypal trees that religions and cultures everywhere have imagined.

The Bible's images for God must be taken in an analogical sense. Yet the Bible exhibits no anxiety about using them.

Jesus' prayer is meant to be overheard.