Resurrection of the Lord (Year C, RCL)

The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way to a hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself.

Witness is an act of trust in a God who sends us to see and tell of all the things God is doing.

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

In Isaiah, every promise of newness is an indictment of present brokenness.

Churches tend to equate the notion of inclusion with hospitality. Peter and Cornelius suggest a more nuanced definition.

In a world where we aren’t trusted, Mary’s encounter with the risen Jesus is an act of solidarity.

The disciples can barely believe that Jesus is dead, let alone that he has been raised to life once more.

As the women prepared the oil and spices, I think they must have told stories.

Pastors face intense challenges—though not necessarily unique ones.

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

“Anyone who thinks he knows the orthodox consensus can always be shown to be wrong,” says David Bentley Hart.

In John’s Gospel we meet a body of flesh and blood. And microbes. 

The Bible offers conflicting answers.

Christ’s invitation to new life is almost always unfamiliar and surprising, even disconcerting.

In recent years, I’ve become somewhat of an Easter Grinch.

Given time, things can grow back.