Welcoming Challenges

Have you ever felt unwelcome?  How did it feel?  Have you ever been staying at someone’s place and felt unwelcome?  It’s awkward, eh.  What did you do?  What can you do?
And, be honest.  Have you ever had someone staying with you, and you wish they weren’t?!  What did you do?  What can you do? … [To read more, click on title]

Healed? No? Then …

There is a difficult tension in today’s readings for me … On one hand we have in Matthew Jesus’s command to his disciples to go out into all the villages of Judea and heal the sick, raise the dead, set the demonic free and proclaim that ‘the kingdom of heaven is near.’ A powerful story of Christ’s authority and power over all that ails us in this life. Whereas … [To read more, click on title]

The Mystery of the Trinity

From the earliest centuries of the church, the triune being of God has been recognized as a mystery that we cannot fully comprehend.  We should acknowledge that intellectual and spiritual humility are called for whenever we think about God – there is a great risk of projecting onto God what we wish God might be like … [To read more, click on the title]