Today’s reading is just one example of dozens where Jesus remixes, recontextualizes the ancient and eternal wisdom of his Father into the present. His listeners had heard the old story that a saviour of their people would rise up from the impoverished, Jesus reframes that story for the uplift of all the downtrodden of this…
As I am sure most of you are aware by observing your own families or looking around church, America is undergoing a generational crisis of faith. Where only 10% of those people born in the 1930s & 1940s called themselves religiously unaffiliated, a whopping 40% of millennials said that they had no religion. Ironically the…
Our children are brushing up on the Hayr Mer in Sunday School, which led to a good question from the kids: Why do we open our arms and turn up our palms as we pray the Lord’s Prayer? I don’t know if you have wondered that, but there is much significance in this detail. Because…
May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Gal 6:14-15 The inside joke about rap is that while everyone in civilized society pretends to be humble and righteous; in reality, we all have a rapper within. This…
“What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” –Mk 10:9 Our church operates in the world of contracts, but we aim for something higher than contractual relationships with each other. Can you imagine what would happen if we had a no-show policy for church? At $50 per person, per Sunday, we would…
So must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. -Jn 3:14-15 Exaltation, exaltation, exaltation. Exaltation, exaltation, exaltation. Don’t worry, I am ok, I am just repeating the name of today’s feast so that we can recover its rightful place in history and our lives. You see,…
‘Godly grief.’ That’s a phrase to memorize, post on Instagram or tattoo on your leg! These two words of St. Paul brilliantly captures the spiritual growing pains that all Christians feel as they mature into the love of God. What are the occasions for this grief? For Paul it was division in his church family.…