04 May, 2026
The story of the Road to Emmaus is one of the most familiar resurrection appearances of Jesus. In it, Jesus speaks at length with Cleopas and his companion, but they don’t recognize him until he breaks bread with them. It reminds me of how many...
27 Apr, 2026
Here we are in the middle of another story of Jesus’ appearance to the disciples after his death, but this time the scene is simply between Jesus and Peter (John 21:15-19). Whether it happened or not doesn’t really matter, the question is what...
20 Apr, 2026
This Easter season – the 50 days before Pentecost – we’re taking a deeper plunge into some of the appearance stories of Jesus. Debating whether these passages are fact or fiction is of no consequence to me, the question is what is their message...
06 Apr, 2026
The Gospel of Mark is the shortest gospel and the earliest gospel, written somewhere in the 8 th decade of the 1 st century. Mark wasn’t one of the original disciples, but he was one of the first to try and put the stories of Jesus into some...
30 Mar, 2026
Whenever I think of Palm Sunday, I think of all the kingly symbolism in the story. Jesus riding into Jerusalem, the heart of Judaism, on the foal of a donkey, mirroring the Zechariah prophecy that the new ruler of Israel will come victorious...
23 Mar, 2026
We’ve talked over and over this Lent about how the spiritual path of Jesus Life-Giver is truly a transformational path leading us to higher and higher levels of consciousness, culminating in an understanding that we are all one – one with the...
16 Mar, 2026
At the beginning of Lent I said we were going to look at Jesus as a Wisdom teacher and explore how he was a Life-Giver to the people who followed him and listened to him teach. I also said we were going back to the basics that Jesus taught...
09 Mar, 2026
Today, this third Sunday in Lent brings us to another radical teaching of Jesus. You may not think it is radical because we’ve talked about this many times. But, in Jesus’ time, for him to assert that there was no separation between God and...
02 Mar, 2026
So, for our second Sunday in Lent we have another scriptural translation to explore. For early Christians, Lent was originally a much shorter period of fasting and preparation for baptism on Easter. This eventually morphed into an entire season...
23 Feb, 2026
Recently it seems like all the books I’ve been reading, and all pastors and theologians I follow on Substack have been talking about getting back to the essence of what Jesus taught and LIVING IT. Jim Wallis, who has a long list of credentials...