True peace, the Spirit, and actually livingEaster 6C | John 14:23-29 The lectionary gave us an odd cut here because it doesn’t want the first part of the passage just yet — it is a little too Pentecosty. Jesus and his disciples are in the midst of the Last Supper, they’ve done …
discipleship
A Word: Loving People
The will and practice of being more like JesusEaster 5C | John 13:31-35 This morning, we find ourselves back in the evening before the Passion, when Jesus is sitting at a table with his closest followers, sharing their last supper together. It is from this table that he excuses …
Sabbath and Anxiety
There is a kind of revealing irony in the most common question people ask when they hear you are going on Sabbatical: What are you going to do? Because “doing” and otherwise being productive is antithetical to what it is for: rest and renewal. Sabbatical is an extended Sabbath, when we rest – and …



