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The words of Jesus in the gospel of John 16:16-24 invite us to explore how sorrow and joy are often connected and of how pain can be the...

“I am the true vine and my Father is the vine grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he...

The one we celebrate at Easter is the one that was Rejected and Risen. We are encouraged to believe ourselves included when we feel...

Easter Day was, is, and hopefully will always be a day of celebration: of rejoicing and relief, of love and life, of renewal and...

On Good Friday we gather at the foot of the cross. It is a sad and confronting place to be. No matter how many times we come to this...

Jesus spent his last hours on earth as he had spent the three years before. Speaking and acting in love – tender, passionate, desperate,...

“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...

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...

Among you stands one whom you you are waiting for. We are being challenged to see that what we desire and need is already in our midst.

That first Pentecost emboldened, liberated and transformed those first followers. We are invited into that same experience.