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 Luke 24:1-12   The women return, murmuring among themselves, grappling with the shock of the stone rolled away, an empty tomb, dazzlin...

After Luke 22:54-62   Wanting to be there, wanting to be anywhere  else, wanting to see where they take him, wanting to be invisible,  Then ...

After Luke 22:31-34   It’s a play  in three acts.  First,  the warning,  a demand  to sift  a disciple like  wheat,  to show what little whe...

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...

In   A Soldier and a Fisherman , Doug Spurling takes us into Acts 10, the story of Cornelius the Roman centurion and Peter the fisherman and...

After Acts 2:38-47 A few words, a single speech, spoken as the crowd grows, the curious and the mocking, wondering at the noi...

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 Acts 12:1-19 I am of no account or station, a servant to answer doors, to bring water or wine, to place food on tables ...

After Acts 4:23-31 They come together, and hear, and speak unplanned, unscripted words, going up fastened to hearts and sou...

Times I wish to be back, hauling nets, often unfilled, inevitable smell of fish on my hands, my hair, my clothes, my feet, what m...

After Acts 3:1-10 The carriers: We carry him each day, legs withered, muscles shadowed, weakness and dependency utter and c...