It is good to be back. I have been gone the past couple of weeks as I was traveling, a work thing that was very lovely, thanks for asking 🙂 and it is very good to be back. My first Sunday back is the first Sunday in Lent (note it is the first Sunday in…
For a certain kind of person knowing things is really important, in the spirit of full disclosure, I am one of these people. This is fine, most of the time, the difficulty comes when they make the leap from “knowing things” to having to be correct. One of the most important, and hardest, lessons I…
 It is virtually impossible to have the book of Jonah show up in the Lectionary and not think of fish. It is even more difficult to get away from fish when the Gospel lesson involves Jesus calling some of his followers away from their vocation as people who fished for a living. However, neither of…