Mark

In Mark’s wilderness and in my city, life emerges in unexpected ways.

In Mark’s wilderness and in my city, life emerges in unexpected ways.

The four books open in very different settings. Together they offer a map for locating ourselves in the world.

How can we proclaim any sort of hope right now? We aren’t the first Christians to wrestle with this question.

I understand why Mark’s editors added to his ending. Still, I wish they hadn’t.

I understand why Mark’s editors added to his ending. Still, I wish they hadn’t.

I understand why Mark’s editors added to his ending. Still, I wish they hadn’t.

I understand why Mark’s editors added to his ending. Still, I wish they hadn’t.

The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way to a hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself.

The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way to a hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself.

The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way to a hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself.

Living in the liturgical present makes salvation a story about us, not just the past.

I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.

I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.

I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.

You can live a long time off a vision like the transfiguration. But there is much else in this world we must look at, from which we dare not avert our eyes.

I once asked a child to give a Sunday sermon—on the book of Job.

“Perpetua was a grandstander,” says Sarah Ruden. “She saw martyrdom—and that means testimony—as a personal glorification.”

Preachers often bury the lede—especially with this parable.