When I think of the Ascension, what comes to mind for me is the word “trajectory,” not just in terms of a final destination, from earth to heaven, but also a course for life – a way, as it were, of getting from here to there. Living in Wonder But that’s a problem. It’s a…

We come to the celebration of Easter from all different places of belief. Some of us are saying, “Yes, Jesus is Lord. Let’s sing and shout, ‘Hallelujah!’” Some of us are saying, “Yes, we know it’s Easter; I guess we ought to go to church.” And still others are not sure what to say, except…

Almost 100 years ago, Evelyn Underhill, British author, mystic and writer on the spiritual life said, “God is the interesting thing about religion.” What she meant by that, and explored in her writings, is that there is something quite ungraspable and yet still intimate about God, not easily defined and yet closer than the next…

The passage I bring to you today is actually a command: “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me” (Matt. 11:28-29a). Only One Thing This is actually one of the hardest things to do in the…

In my last post, we examined how God uses a new rector to bring a new beginning to a church, and that the new beginning must start with a common vision. We examined that “common vision” and concluded that it must contain a view of the centrality of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus…

Every church has a new rector sooner or later. Some go through this transition more often than others. Regardless of how or why it happens, the coming of a new rector is an invitation. It’s an invitation, actually, primarily from God, to discover in a new way what God has called the church to be…

© LakshmiPrasad lucky These are crazy, odd times. And quite honestly, the temptation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is to be uncertain and to learn, uncomfortably, how to live with the lack of capacity to plan for the future. Not knowing how people are, being cut off from family and friends. This happened…

I think it’s the nature of the Christian life to go through cycles such as the following: Things are going pretty well. And then through a whole series of circumstances in which we feel thrown against the rocks. We thought we could do something, but we can’t. All of our efforts at self-will and continued…

I need a new flashlight. And when I was looking at flashlight ads, I found one that you can turn on, and the beam can either go broad or narrow, concentrated down to a pin dot. Sometimes the pin dot happens for me when I read Scripture. Today, it was this line from the Gospel…

In my last post, we discussed the passage in John 14:1-6 where Jesus tells Thomas, “I am the way,” inviting us into a relationship with him that will transform us. And therefore, we are invited to enter into that same fount of knowledge both by apprehending through reading and studying, but more importantly, by receiving,…