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“Very truly I tell you unless a grain of wheat ... dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” Jesus only...

In the light of the Scriptures this week I have to acknowledge that I too belong to the “murmuring” tradition – that I too grumble,...

The cleansing of the temple is a story, depending on your personality and theology, that is thrilling, disturbing, or confusing – or all...

Take up your cross, not just for Lent but for life. Jesus seems to be saying: If you want any part of me have it all – the teaching and...

Forty days, or forty years, in a short hand way of the Bible telling us that something very significant is happening that brings about a...

The Ash Wednesday service is a very simple and ancient one. It is both sober and sensual as we smell the smoke, and receive the gritty...

The transfiguration is a movable feast in the church calendar. It can be celebrated the last Sunday before Lent, or the second Sunday of...

The nearness of the kingdom of God is made known by teaching with authority, healing on the Sabbath, eating with friends and family, and...

The themes of knowledge, power, authority, wisdom and love, do seem to run through our RCL readings this week (Deuteronomy 18:15-20,...

Most of us, like Jonah, would prefer to be sent to Tarshish than to Nineveh. The story of the call of Jonah is in many ways the grumpy...

To know and be known is one of the deepest human longings. I believe it is one of the ways in which we bear the divine spark – this...

Things that were once separate – creation and the creator, human and divine, flesh and spirit – are being declared Beloved and...