On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
There is a moment in today's gospel that is easy to rush past, hidden quietly inside the drama of a crowd, a hillside, and a miracle that defies ordinary arithmetic. Before Jesus multiplies the loaves and the fish, before the twelve baskets are filled, before the awestruck crowd declares him the...
Read reflectionThere 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 shape...
Read more →There 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...
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