Week 6 (Year 4, NL)

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?

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?

Opening up space and time in our lives is one way to invite God to speak.

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.