Stories
“Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity … that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but spiritually.
Frederick Buechner, Telling Stories
Typically, when we enter into the season of Lent, we are confronted with our mortality with the imposition of ashes and the stark reminder that we are but dust and to dust we will return. Throughout the penitent season, we remind ourselves of our dependence on God by fasting, by giving up things, and by…
What happens to old man Zebedee after everyone leaves? There he is, holding the dropped and half-mended nets as his sons and their friends leave without so much a second thought. When he finally returns home, he’ll find that his wife, too, has left with his sons, to whirl about them and attempt to curry…
The Call to Humanize
To Jesus, angry, contemptuous name-calling is a form of violence on par with murder itself. It’s the seeds of dehumanization, and any time we see this kind of awful rhetoric leveled against entire groups of people we are in danger again of being thrown into the raging fires of hell on earth. Dehumanization is the…
A Holy Trilogy: Experience the Drama of the Paschal Mystery
It’s fair to say that even though there are three distinct films, the original Star Wars trilogy tells one unified and complete story. They are dramatic acts in one play. Missing even one of the installments leaves a huge gaping hole in understanding the full arc of the narrative, and it robs the conclusion of…
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The Rev. David Henson 