The vine branch doesn’t put “make grapes” on its to-do list. It just makes them.
Easter | Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
Acts 8:26-40 (Psalm 22:25-31); 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8
Sometimes it seems that the vine grower has prepared the vineyard and gone off to a remote island where things are warmer and nicer.
We are divided. We do not abide each other well.
The fear loop
In our current crisis, fear is both cause and consequence.
Willie James Jennings writes about tangible things—bodies, incarceration, healing—with graceful language that’s hard to pin down.
Until Christians can all share the Lord’s Supper, the rift continues. But there is no denying how massively the ground has shifted.