Second Sunday of Easter (Year B, RCL)

As a pastor, I am both grateful for our congregation’s healthy endowment and distressed by it. I don’t think I’m alone.

Maybe Easter is about not theory but practice.

Thomas’s experience with the risen Christ is a testament to the possibilities Easter creates.

Holly Carey turns up the brightness on the most faithful disciples in the gospels: the women.

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

Jesus is no ghost; his breath reeks of resurrection.

A day with few visitors presents an opportunity.

There is a blessing for those who have not come to believe and yet keep trying to see.

While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.

Jesus, fresh out of his own three-day savasana, breathes on the disciples.

Thomas might be the patron saint of a secular age.

On navigating light/dark language for worship

Thomas gets so overwhelmed by Jesus’ presence that he ends up shelving the autopsy.

“Receive the Holy Spirit” isn’t an invitation. It’s a command.

This Sunday is one where some re-education and re-framing might be helpful.

Maybe Christianity’s best appeal is its courage in the face of all that wounds, rips, and ravages.

There's more than one way to taste and see the goodness of God.

Talking about God in the face of wounds that won’t go away

How early Christians thought about bodies and how we do