Third Sunday after the Epiphany (Year B, RCL)

The new year is only a few weeks old. Like most people I have been reflecting on the past year, wondering where the time went. But even more, I have been wondering what the world has come to.

Paul isn’t asking us to avoid the world. But if the form of the world is passing away, the everyday is becoming a step into promise.

Three faiths esteem Jonah, whom God sent to the city now called Mosul.

In a culture that finds repentance unintelligible, impractical, or unnecessary, we are called to witness to its intelligibility, beauty, and importance.

In a recent interview, Diane Keaton told the story of when she first decided to adopt a child. She was driving her father home from the hospital to die.

Simon and Andrew immediately left their nets and followed. If only we could respond so quickly.

If it were me, I would have stayed in the fishing boat or dithered about what to do until Jesus was just a speck on the horizon.

Jonah is prophetic minimalism gone amok.

Those first fisher disciples left more than their nets by the seashore.