Not Yet
So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. (John 8:36) Not yet. Not yet. I’m too consumed with little passions, small dislikes, tiny hungers — little things that confine me. Like a man in a little box, whose world is defined
Category Archives: Faith & Witness
Faith in What Cannot Be Seen
“The empty tomb we celebrate today represents to me faith in the unseen knowing That with faith and hope in the goodness of and love for and gratitude to God Miracles are a reality And anything is possible for one who believes” — John H.
The Empty Tomb: What Does the Resurrection Mean?
And he said to them, “Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see the place where they laid him. — Mark 16:6 To some, Easter may conjure images of little girls in lily-yellow
Emerging From Our Tombs: Being LGBTQ+ on Ash Wednesday
I sit here tonight after going to what has to be the most amazing Ash Wednesday that I’ve ever been to. The minister told the story of how her grandmother explained to her why we do this whole Ash Wednesday thing: Let the ashes enter
The Slow Miracle of Transformation
It was a Friday night, February 28, 1997. The phone range late in the evening. My husband, Bob, answered. I heard him say, “Hi, George,” in a friendly voice. George is my ex-husband, the father of my two daughters. Suddenly Bob sat down and made
Jesus for Dummies
What is the ‘essential Jesus’? What do we know for certain about Jesus that is relevant and truly helpful to everybody today? Do certain basic facts and clear certainties exist about Jesus that can form a basis for realistic objective logical faith? The Sources The
Daring To Be a Heretical Follower of Christ
I tried desperately to find another topic for this issue — anything. I wracked my brain. I paced and thought, sat and thought, slept on it — all to no avail. The topic was clear — there was no getting around it. God kept prodding
Jesus Christ: God’s Revelation of Humanity to Humanity
What do you put your trust in? This may seem like an odd question given the topic of who Jesus is, but it’s extremely relevant. What, not just whom, do you trust in? What do you rely on to make it through this life. Sure,
Jesus Continues To Change the World
Television personalities constantly remind us that September 11 changed our world forever. They say that the world will never be the same after September 11. But what are the changes and what do they mean? What events have most changed our world in our lifetime?
Once I Met Jesus
Once, I met Jesus and I thought he was a king and therefore the ultimate law-giver. All I had to do was meet the demands of his law and we would be happy together forever. But I couldn’t keep his laws and I couldn’t be