Transfiguration and transformation are quite similar words. They are obviously not identical, neither in spelling nor meaning, but are they different? There are many different words meaning virtually or literally the same thing . . . what about these two? As I thought about Transfiguration Sunday and reviewed the texts for today I began to […]
Another look at Transfiguration
Transfiguration Sunday comes around every church year. You can think of it as the last Sunday of Epiphany or the last Sunday before Lent but it comes up no matter what you think of it. This is the beauty and (sometimes) the challenge of following the Lectionary. I am grateful to all of those preaching […]
Let’s talk mountains and mountaintops
Mountaintop experiences . . . everyone has had them. Some people have even had them on the top of physical mountains. I’m not one of those people. I have never been on top of a mountain, I’ve barely been on the top of a hill. But I have had “mountaintop” experiences. “Mountaintop experiences” are the […]