Second Sunday of Easter (Year C, RCL)

Many people assume that disability is bad for a person’s well-being. But historically we haven’t been very good at determining what’s bad for someone.

John’s account is quieter than Luke’s.

Some resurrection stories carry wounds we must not ignore.

Stigmata assert identity and collective memory through self-scarred skin. What if we read the Thomas story through a tattoo hermeneutic?

As I pressed my sermon’s pages across the book’s valley, I couldn’t keep them from sliding into the groove.

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.