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The reading from Revelation skips over lines that will likely put off many hearers.
by Greg Carey
Living between the Bible’s first and last prayers
Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”
by Timothy Jones
Considering the trees on Ash Wednesday
Each tree in my neighborhood is the tree of life.
by Isaac S. Villegas
The reading from Revelation 22 concludes the book’s resurrection songs: the baptized enjoy the fruits of the tree of life. But the tree is not merely one of the countless archetypal trees that religions and cultures everywhere have imagined.
by Gail Ramshaw
Jesus' prayer is meant to be overheard.
By Barbara Rossing
by Barbara Rossing
by Carl E. Braaten