June 8, 2025

Ich verstehe nicht. I don’t understand. That’s what I told the train conductor in Germany when I was clearly on […]

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June 1, 2025

When you end a dinner or social and are ready to leave, you make a simple gesture of saying goodbye. […]

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May 25, 2025

Easter is an invitation to homecoming. But where is our home? Where is Jesus’ home? And what makes for home? […]

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May 18, 2025

Jesus shares the Gospel lesson words with his disciples before he leaves them.  Have you thought about what words, hopes, […]

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May 11, 2025

A true story goes on a Youth Sunday, where each child was to recite a verse of Scripture in worship.  […]

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May 4, 2025

Often after a big event, we can feel a letdown after a big party, wedding, graduation, or trip that has […]

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March 30, 2025

There are a lot of reasons and causes for celebrating in the texts for today.   The psalm ends exuberantly […]

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March 23, 2025

Spring is here.  As the temperature go into the eighties the next few days, I feel like I am returning […]

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March 16, 2025

This past October, a teacher in New Jersey, Cathy Hurley, while leaving school, noticed a schoolyard fight of four against […]

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March 9, 2025

The challenge Jesus faces in the wilderness is that he is alone.  The wilderness is rough — a place of […]

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