Second Sunday of Easter (Year B, RCL)

Christianity in India goes back to the ancient world.

It takes courage to plunge our hands smack-dab into the side of the universe and reach for a God that could be real.

Why wasn’t Thomas with the others? Why did he eventually return?

As a pastor, I am both grateful for our congregation’s healthy endowment and distressed by it. I don’t think I’m alone.

Maybe Easter is about not theory but practice.

Thomas’s experience with the risen Christ is a testament to the possibilities Easter creates.

Holly Carey turns up the brightness on the most faithful disciples in the gospels: the women.

The challenges to unity are great. The reward of unity is tremendous.

Jesus is no ghost; his breath reeks of resurrection.

A day with few visitors presents an opportunity.

There is a blessing for those who have not come to believe and yet keep trying to see.

While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.

Jesus, fresh out of his own three-day savasana, breathes on the disciples.

Thomas might be the patron saint of a secular age.

On navigating light/dark language for worship

Thomas gets so overwhelmed by Jesus’ presence that he ends up shelving the autopsy.

“Receive the Holy Spirit” isn’t an invitation. It’s a command.

This Sunday is one where some re-education and re-framing might be helpful.

Maybe Christianity’s best appeal is its courage in the face of all that wounds, rips, and ravages.