It’s my favorite thing to say on someone’s birthday. It is after all the start of that person’s very own new year. Here I am today at the beginning of my own. Often, I take stock. Look around for something important to do. Try to change and work to become more me. I sometimes take…
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Epiphany
Traditionally, Epiphany marks the visit of the Magi to the Christ child. The three wisemen we often see crashing the crèche actually arrived a little later in the story. In reading up on Epiphany, I turned to one of my favorite authors, Shane Claiborne. Claiborne along with two others, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Enuma Okoro, put…
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First Sunday of 2020
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said, “Take, eat, this is my body.” Matthew 26:26, nET I cannot remember the last time I had the privelege to be in church on the first Sunday of the year. The privelege to take communion…
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