Yvette Schock
Yvette Schock is associate pastor at Faith Lutheran Church in Arlington, Virginia.
This week’s short passage from Acts gives a snapshot of the Christian community in Jerusalem, including a list of essential practices.
May 5, 2014
Luke’s report of the church’s economic sharing interrupts our reading of what might otherwise be an easy passage.
April 29, 2014
The story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus is a favorite of mine. I love the image of pilgrims traveling together, struggling to understand tragedy and loss. I love that Jesus enters the story as a pushy traveling companion who sidles up beside them and talks their ears off for the rest of the trip. And I love that it's not Jesus' incisive exegesis of the promises in scripture that open the disciples' eyes to his identity. It is his presence with them at a shared meal
April 28, 2014
Our eyes drink in the world around us, but our brains develop filters. I imagine Cleopas and his friend sifting carefully through what they have seen.
April 22, 2014
In this week’s Gospel lesson, Jesus says to the people, Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No... Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No. No.
February 25, 2013