First Sunday in Lent (Year 4, NL)

“If John’s christological confessor is also the first person the risen Jesus appears to,” says biblical scholar Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, “that could make her a competitor to Peter’s authority.”

Before Satan, there was the biblical sea monster Leviathan.

Psalm 130 fits so many ways.

Martha hears Jesus’ promise, but she has a brother whose body is starting to decay.

Shakeshafte and Other Plays explores the messiness of language and meaning.

They put us in touch with essential things that we know to be dear or wrong.

“Life is built, and then it stops, and then Christ reaches in and brings it forward again.”

Lazarus’s story is one of grief—and hope.

Maybe Jesus’ tears at Bethany come from more than grief.

God called all of them good. Humans are rapidly destroying them.