Alleluia, Christ is risen! Well, it’s day eight of our fifty day long Easter party. How are you doing? Partied out yet? Just getting going? It’s hard to sustain fifty days worth of celebration, isn’t it? Keep trying, though. How are we going to manage to celebrate for all of eternity if we haven’t got the stamina to have a go for…

Alleluia! Christ is risen! We’ve been retelling the story of Jesus’ last days this week, the awful story of Jesus’ hopes for humankind broken as Jesus is disbelieved, betrayed, deserted, abused and executed for the crime of preaching that God desires that our lives be better than they are: richer in love, deeper in fidelity, full of abundance and empty of fear.…

Alleluia! Christ is risen! We heard the stories of where we came from and who we are as God’s people, and now, at last, we have heard the story of where we are going. Beyond life, beyond death, through water and into light, with Jesus as our guide. How shall we celebrate our good fortune? How can we describe our joy? On…

Anyone who is in recovery from addiction, or knows someone in recovery, knows that the journey back from death’s door begins when you hit rock bottom – when you have lost more of the things that matter to you than you can possibly bear to lose, and you feel utterly helpless in the powerful grip of your addiction. Good Friday is that…

We begin Holy week in a dramatic, complicated way. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, if our liturgy seems a bit disjointed, with the excitement of the Palm Procession leading abruptly into the drama and despair of the Passion gospel, there’s a reason for that. The two don’t really belong together. What we have is the mash-up of two ancient…

The raising of Lazarus from the dead in John’s gospel is not the only story we have of Jesus raising someone from the dead. But it is the one richest in detail and in symbolism. There are, as you probably noticed when you heard it, many things about the story that are confusing, and a few things that are troubling.  Just like…