On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
There is a question that quietly presses against the heart of every believer: who, exactly, is Jesus? Not in the abstract, doctrinal sense that we may recite from a creed, but in the living, personal sense that shapes how we actually orient our lives. Today's Gospel, drawn from the third chapter...
Read reflectionThere are passages in Scripture so familiar that we risk reading past them without truly hearing them. John 3:16 may be the most recognized verse in the entire Bible, printed on banners and bumper stickers, recited f...
Read more →There is a particular kind of frustration that comes from not understanding something you feel you should already know. Nicodemus knew that frustration well. He was a Pharisee, a teacher of Israel, a man who had give...
Read more →There is something quietly courageous about Nicodemus. He is a Pharisee, a ruler among the Jews, a man of status, learning, and religious authority — and yet he comes to Jesus. He comes at night, yes, shrouded in the...
Read more →There is a room. The doors are locked. The disciples of Jesus are huddled inside, pressing against walls that offer the illusion of safety, their hearts wrapped in the same darkness. Fear, grief, and the disorienting...
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