People do not float through life in the bubble that is their skin. We are grounded, dependent beings that live through the lives and deaths of others.
Easter | Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year C)
Acts 16:9-15 (Psalm 67); Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 14:23-29 or John 5:1-9
I want the kingdom of God to be civilized. If possible I'd like to be able to keep sleeping in my own bed.
May 1, 2015
For my money, John’s is the only Gospel in which Jesus seems really lonely.
by Kat Banakis
July 12, 2013
Jesus’ promise that he and God will come make a home with us sounds like good news to me. Our so-called secular age purports to have disenchanted us of our pre-modern superstitions. Many of us find God’s stark absence from our daily affairs to be our most prominent experience of the divine.
April 29, 2013
Our brains are wired to allow us to read each other's minds, to feel each other's person.
by Andrew Root
March 28, 2013