Patricia Farris
Patricia Farris is senior minister at First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica, California.
The vagaries of the calendar and the cycles of the moon bring in an early Lent and Easter this year, and so the transfiguration has come early too, cutting short the season of Sundays after Epiphany. Unexpectedly, we find ourselves back up on the mountain with Jesus. We were just there to hear him describing those who populate the kingdom of heaven. Now he returns, not with all the disciples this time, but only the insider troika of Peter, James and John.
January 25, 2005
This is not a metaphorical desert. Left alone here at high noon, Jesus could die without water.
February 13, 2002
Portrayed as a cowardly dolt, Nicodemus is usually spotted skulking about under cover of darkness.
January 30, 2002
The Tempter will return again and again. But we are never left alone.
January 30, 2002
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