Blog posts from April, 2018

Inside and Out

3887669941 7c57e3a00a z St. Mark, Evangelist 1 Peter 5:5b-14; Mark 16:15-20   It’s somewhat ironic that the consensus among scripture scholars is that gospel passage chosen for ...

The Persistence of Persecution, The Greater Persistence of Mission

Religion-and-politics-492x328 Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Easter Acts 8:1b-8; John 6:35-40 The persecution of the church is a fact from the earliest days of its existence.  Today in some countries ...

Moving Toward the Light

Light shining1 “Do you prefer the light or the darkness?”  That’s the question that Jesus asks us today.  At first it seems like an easy question to ...

Dr. King and Communion

Usmc-09611 Wednesday in the Octave of Easter Acts 3:1-10; Luke 24:13-35   Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.  It was ...