To the Next World
A novel based on the life of the Italian saint, lover of the poor and friend of creation, St. Francis, includes this story: One day, Francis was walking down the…
Book of the Bible: Revelation
Holy Imagination
Last year – 2024 – was the hottest year ever recorded. And the top ten hottest years ever recorded have all been in the past ten years. We have lived through a…
Worthy is the Lamb
I’m continuing to preach from the book of Revelation. The Revelation or Apocalypse of John, is an unveiling, an unmasking of the truth of who God is and what God…
who is and was and is coming
For the next few weeks in this Easter season – I am planning to preach from the book of Revelation. Revelation is the last book of the New Testament, the…
God’s life with us
In the very first line of the book of Revelation, we learn that the author is in a prison colony—Patmos: a small, rugged island in the Aegean Sea. He is…
With
Homemaking. The Christian life is a kind of homemaking. To make a home in this world, to make a life together, the routines and practices, the rituals and habits, where…
The wounds of love
I spent four hours this week in the car with Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, and Grandpa Joe. Leo and Julian listen to books on CD, and I recently burned an…
Singing
Psalm 100 (VT #20), Psalm 47:1, 6-7 (VT #108), Isaiah 42:10-11 (VT #106), Revelation 7:9-12 (VT #110) I’m not very good at singing. You probably already knew that. I don’t…
The Adhan and Ma’an lil-Hayat
Revelation 5:13, “Then I heard every creature in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, singing…” Psalm 30:4,…
Warmth of the saints
All Saints Sunday Jesus gets there too late. He gets to Lazarus too late. “Lord,” Mary says—this is Lazarus’s sister Mary—she says, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother…