We all know what dead means. During these days of the COVID-19 pandemic the notion is probably closer to the surface than usual.It is all too easy to see “dead” as the end because it usually is an end. Even someone who dislikes binaries and false-dichotomies as much as I do admit the binary of […]
More grace
I think I have preached about grace every time I preached on the fourth Sunday in Lent in Year B. I’m not prepared to go back and look into it very deeply because I don’t think it matters all that much, it speaks mostly to the power of Ephesians 2:1-10. Through the help of a […]
The last thing to talk about
Photo credit: Rueben J. Murray We don’t like talking about death. We don’t have to like talking about it. Unfortunately, there are some times where we simply cannot avoid it. This Sunday the Lectionary has us in the first part of John 11, the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. The other Lectionary […]