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Jesus, as remembered by Mark’s gospel, seems to delight in scandalising us by who is included and valued by God. (Nineteenth Sunday after...

Jesus seems to delight in turning everything upside down! Do you want to become important? Then become as vulnerable and unimportant as...

This week we learn, with and through Peter and the disciples, the true identity of Jesus the Holy One of God, or Messiah. And this...

It seems that living into the larger more inclusive heart and mind of God’s vision is not easy and that, dare we say it, even Jesus...

This week we hear Jesus challenging and seeking to break open the "too small ” mindset of the religious who focus on the appearance or...

The story of John the Baptist, especially the story of his ending, is very disconcerting. (RCL Mark 6:14-29) There is something about...

When Jesus makes his way back to his home town they are amazed and offended and consequently Jesus could do no act of power among them....

Jesus reaches across the human divide of important and unnamed, gender, and the chasm between life and death itself, in order to restore...

The Jesus who stills the storm and commands calm is a Savior that most would want to follow (RCL Mark 4:35-41) but more often Jesus...

Jesus did much of his teaching with parables which were filled with everyday images and yet confoundingly challenging and provocative....

Watching the evening news, preparing for extended family gatherings, or parish meetings it is hard not to be aware of the divisions...

“He has been raised, he is not here.” Mark’s account of the resurrection still bears some of the rawness of a recent event – an event so...