The story of Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding Cana is traditionally talked about as Jesus’ first miracle. That word “traditionally” is really the key to that sentence, because of course we don’t really know. It is the first action of Jesus that we usually think of as a miracle in John’s gospel, […]
The traditional reading from Matthew for Transfiguration Sunday, the story of Jesus at the mountaintop with Peter, James, and John, starts with the first verse of Chapter 17, but as you might have picked up, I can’t just let a verse that starts “Six days later” go unexplored. My curiosity is piqued. Six days after […]
While I’ve always been fascinated by the many different languages that are spoken around the world, I’ve also always been terrified to learn to speak any of them. Case in point – I was one of 6 people in my high school graduating class that took every level of Latin that was offered. I did […]
I can remember a time when I promised myself I wouldn’t be one of those preachers who makes football references every Sunday of the season, so I hope former me will forgive current me today. It’s not really a football reference directly; it’s just about football players. Or even more directly football players who have […]
Sometime in the few years after my kids were too old for such things, a friend of mine, an Episcopal priest, started posting pictures on her social media of her “wandering wisemen.” I have to say, I was jealous I missed out on the chance to pick up this tradition with our family, but with […]
In the book of Matthew, John the Baptist, first comes on the scene after the story of the events surrounding Jesus’ birth. That is Matthew jumps from the angelic annunciation to Joseph that his betrothed would conceive a child by the Holy Spirit, to the arrival of wise men who came sometime after that child […]
We are beginning our Advent, our new church year and the time in which we anticipate Christ’s historical and contemporary and future breaking into the human experience, right at the beginning of the gospel according to Luke. It’s a different place to do it. Many times we start with big cosmic stories of apocalypse. Other […]
