Second Sunday of Easter (Year C, RCL)

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

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?

Harriet Tubman’s visions seemed, to her, to be glimpses of glory.

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.

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.

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

Thomas might be the patron saint of a secular age.

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.