An Eastertide Garden of the Heart
It’s transition time for my vegetable garden here in southern Arizona. It’s getting into the 90s in the afternoons, so I pre-emptively harvested all the lettuce in my garden (sharing a lot of it with various neighbors) and a huge batch of parsley, then dug out the...
New Life in a New Land
Happy Easter! Christ is Risen! I thought I knew what I was going to write about for this Easter Sunday blog post, then Henry called me on Spy Wednesday morning and, with just a few words, changed things for me. “Spy Wednesday” is the old name for the Wednesday of Holy...What Does It Mean to Follow Jesus Today?
Happy Easter! I pray that each of you who read this will find that Resurrection is taking on new meaning for you in some way, large or small, this year—if not today, then in the days and weeks ahead. I’ve been pondering what it means to follow Jesus, in part because...
On This Rock
One of the places that touched me most strongly in the holy land was the rock in front of this church, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias and Lake of Gennesaret). This is the rock, according to tradition, where Jesus appeared to Peter...
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