John the Baptist: the last of the Old Testament prophets, the first messenger of the New Testament’s Gospel, a pivotal figure without equal appearing in the wilderness at the hinge point of God’s relationship with all Creation. Clad in camelhair, surviving in the remote countryside on locusts and wild honey, John proclaims a baptism ofContinue reading “Loaves and Fishes”
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Honor Your Parents
A lunchroom filled with schoolchildren raises the curtain on a familiar cast of characters. Perhaps most immediately: The Spillers and Wasters, the Yellers and Screamers, the Wigglers and the Jigglers – each as equally aggravating as the next, but nevertheless shaped and sized uniquely in the image of the God who made them. Continue reading “Honor Your Parents”