John 20:1-18 The Easter narrative in John’s gospel begins, happens, and continues through Mary Magdalene. She finds the empty tomb. She tells the disciples. (Then after they focus on a foot race, who did and saw what, how the clothes were lying in the tomb, they...
I was in seminary in Boston when the pandemic hit. A couple of friends and I were on spring break in Maine when we got the email from our dean telling us we wouldn’t be returning to in-person classes after the break. That was the first of many communications I...
July 2020 was a pivotal moment in my family’s life. Not only had Covid-19 disrupted life as we knew it, but we also sold our home of 12 years and moved 12 hours away. It was one of those experiences that define a journey. You can probably name moments like that in...
Defy Gravity! It is by far my family’s favorite Broadway production. We have enacted it for COVID birthday greetings, karaoke, and one-liners. It is the show Wicked. Telling the back story to The Wizard of Oz, it focuses on a green, female witch, Elphaba, who is made...
You Do Not Receive Our Testimony John 3:11-17 (New Revised Standard Version) Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how...
Standing with Eve In the summer of 2020, life as I knew it ceased to exist. I confess to being somewhat slow to understand the magnitude of racial injustice in our country, even though I live just a few zip codes over from the city in the US with the highest rates of...
