It's the week after Easter. Chocolate bunnies eaten, eggs hidden, found, and turned into egg salad, leftover ham served on sandwiches, Easter hymns sung and put away til next year. And here we are … Now what? Our pastor said in his Easter sermon: We are people of the resurrection! And my question is: What […]

There are some days I leave the writing to the experts. Today is one of those days. "So what do I believe actually happened that morning on the third day after he died? I can tell you this: that what I believe happened and what in faith and with great joy I proclaim, is that […]

And the whole earth held its breath ... Photo by Kristina Delp on Unsplash

Good Friday is dark. The compassionate, merciful, God-man dies a criminal's death at the hands of religious and political leaders. The Messiah, full of despair and feeling deserted by God the Father, cries out, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" Even the earth wept and quaked. Yet somehow, we call it good. Emil Brunner, […]

I recently read the story of Judas, the backstabber, one of Jesus' closest friends. The moral majority of his day paid Judas to conspire with them to arrest Jesus. After this collusion was initiated, Jesus served the Passover meal (what we now call the Last Supper) to his disciples---including Judas. As I read this story […]

The Blessing of the Old Woman, The Tulip, and the Dog To be blessed said the old woman is to live and work so hard God's love washes right through you like milk through a cow *** To be blessed said the dark red tulip is to knock their eyes out with the slug of […]