For those of you traveling with me through the Gospel of John for Lent, John 13 paints a beautiful picture of Jesus kneeling to wash his disciples’ feet. In those days, NikeFrees and Vibrams and Tevas weren’t on the shelves. The soles of Israeli...
As I was driving the other day, a worship song I loved started playing over the radio. I turned up the volume and sang my heart out, even swaying to the beat and waving my arms during stoplights. But then, I had this uncanny feeling somebody was watching me. I twisted...
For those of you traveling with me through the Gospel of John for Lent, John 9 explores the issue of physical and spiritual blindness in a beautiful and profound way. Jesus sees a man who has been blind from birth. The challenges this man faced physically were only...
Twelve billion light years away a dense cloud of molecules crumpled, exploding into a new star. The famous byproduct of this new birth? Water. Without water, human cells cannot function. Without water, plants cannot complete photosynthesis, vegetation’s way of...
Confession: Masks sometimes scare me. Though the artistic flair of a masquerade half mask can be spectacular, full masks make me uncomfortable. Not only is there mystery in whom I’m talking to, but they are too reminiscent of clown makeup for my liking. The...
