New Life

Easter: Known By Our Names

Year A Jeremiah 31:1-6 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Acts 10:34-43 John 20:1-18 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… I spoke some last evening about being reminded that the stories which have come down to us…  stories which remind us that we are freed from all that enslaves us…  and I want to say something...

Nurseries for Stars and Humanity

In March 1616, the Catholic Church issued a prohibition against the Copernican theory, which claimed that the Earth was not at the center of the universe (geocentric), but that it rotated around the Sun (heliocentric). This led to the Inquisition and Condemnation of Galileo Galilei (in 1633) as a suspected heretic for his subsequent astronomical observations (such...

Seeing Fully

Year B Jeremiah 31:7-9 Psalm 126 Hebrews 7:23-28 Mark 10:46-52 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… Do you remember in English class…  ever having to do an assignment called Compare and Contrast…  where you’d take two paragraphs…  or poems…  or novels…  and describe how they’re similar…  but also how...