Faith, Fiction, Friends

After Matthew 16:16-20   What do the people say, he asked, who do the people say  I am? Perfunctory and expected answers: John the Baptist, ...

After John 1:1-14   Two men are sent. The first is a witness. The second is the light. The first announces  the light is coming. The second ...

After John 1:1-14   All the things the word is: The word is spoken. The word is thought. The word is felt. The word is experienced. The word...

After Colossians 1:15-20   He is the image, invisible, image of the invisible, firstborn, creator, creator of all things, not only the physi...

After Galatians 4:4-7   We complicate this unnecessarily and expend huge energies  upon asking why. And it’s simple, really, which we with o...

After Luke 2:41-47 The annual trip to the big city, the annual feast of Passover, a custom observed every year, a ritual of faith, a ritual ...

After Luke 2:39-40   Just a boy, twelve years old, not a child and not a man, but beginning  the transition. Just a boy, growing up in a sma...

After Matthew 16:13-20   Asked the question who do you say I am, it is the hothead who answers first. The Christ. The Son. The Son of the Li...

After Matthew 16:13-20   It is the city of Pan, and of Baal before that, a city replete with statues to worship, now the city of Caesar, of ...

After John 21:15-17   This man, this hothead, first to jump into the sea, first to volunteer, first to pull a sword, first to deny him openl...

After John 21:15-17   The third time they’d seen him since the cross, sharing fish on the shore, fish he cooks on the shore: three questions...

After John 1:9-14   Dawn cracks open, a sliver of light at first, pale gleam opening in the east,  presumptuous in its challenge to the dark...

After John 1:1-5   It begins with a word, it begins with the word, “word” implying speech and thought, language and understanding. And more:...

After John 21:1-19 and John 18: 15-27 Three times he’d denied him. Three times he’d said  he didn’t know him. Three times h...

After John 21:1-19 Ever the hothead, ever impulsive, he jumps in the water to swim to shore, swim to the man who tells them t...

After Mark 11:1-14 Hungry, he spies a tree, a fig tree in full leaf, suggestive of branches hanging heavy with fruit. He se...