Sometimes I worry that because the good news of the gospel is so familiar to us, that we've lost it's power. Have we made it ordinary? A part of our lives that we know, but keep safely tucked away, careful to not let it disrupt our daily life too much? Or maybe something that has simply become...

  The great epic that is the Bible begins with a clear conflict: the divine breathes life into humanity in order to live in community with us, but once sin arrives, this intimacy is shattered. Humanity finds itself thrust outside of Eden and away from God, in a position that they were never crea...

In the opening lines of Gospel of John, John the Baptist arrives not as the light, but as the witness. His purpose is simple and singular: to help others see. And as we learned last week, we are called to do the same. Yet I find myself struggling to fulfill this calling every day. Because when i...

At the opening of the Gospel, John speaks of a mysterious figure—the Word—who is both with God and is God. The Creator of all things, the source of life, the light of humanity. A light, he says, that has entered the darkness—and a darkness that cannot comprehend it or overcome it. And then, witho...

  There are openings, and then there are thresholds. Can you imagine John, wrestling with the weight of telling this story? He knows he has been called to this—to bear witness, to testify, to shape experience into language so that others might believe. But language falters. Words feel thin, like...