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 […]
Death doesn’t have to equal the end
The Lectionary texts for this week all seem to revolve around death and resurrection, which makes them especially appropriate for Lent I suppose. As I reflected on them the more I came to see a theme of death as ending; not death as the end of life but rather death as a metaphor for the […]