Monday, April 6, 2015

An Easter Reflection: The Resurrection as God’s Answer to Human Evil, Failure, and Despair

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Yesterday millions of Christians across the globe gathered to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For centuries, Easter has been the...
Friday, April 3, 2015

A Good Friday Reflection: Jesus’ Cry from the Cross: Abandonment and Hope

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I write the words of this current reflection on the morning of what Christians have traditionally called Good Friday, the day on which we re...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

A Maundy Thursday Reflection: Jesus Modeled Love Even Toward His Betrayer

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Years ago, as I was teaching on Jesus’ command to love our enemies, a very perceptive young man asked me, “How far should we go to love our ...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

A Palm Sunday Reflection: Jesus' Action in the Temple in Mark

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Mark’s portrayal of Jesus and his disciples heading toward Jerusalem is both an important literary device and a theologically rich motif for...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

“Whoever does the will of God”: Mark’s Understanding of Jesus’ True Family

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Compared to Matthew and Luke, Mark has little to say about Jesus’ natural family. Indeed, perhaps one of the most glaring omissions fr...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

“For the Purpose of Being with Him”: The Relationship between Jesus and the Disciples in Mark

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In a previous post I wrote about Mark’s presentation of the disciples as portraits of human failure and possibility before God. The disci...
Monday, March 23, 2015

The Broken Body of Jesus, Not the Powerful People of God

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Here's another excerpt from my book, Reframing a Relevant Faith . You can purchase the book from the publisher at http://direct.ene...