As I hope you’ve come to know by now, I take scripture very seriously. All of it. The parts that make sense to me and the parts that don’t. The parts that give me joy and the parts that make me angry. The parts I like and the parts I don’t like. And there are lots of parts in scripture that are…

“So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known?” Don’t you just love it when Jesus gets all apocalyptic like this, when he starts throwing tables around, or calling people hypocrites and vipers, or talking about fire and strife and division as if it were a good…

It’s the feast of the Holy Trinity, a feast dedicated to God in all of God’s mysterious, complicated self. It is the custom of the Church to put the seminarian in the pulpit on Trinity Sunday, or the clergy person with the least seniority, not because they have taken theology classes most recently and are therefore able to expound best on this…

Alleluia! Christ is Risen! Today is the feast of Pentecost, the fiftieth and last day of Eastertide. The word Pentecost simply means “fifty days,” and the disciples, you may have noticed, were observing the Jewish Pentecost – fifty days after Passover, when a very strange thing happened. This strange thing, the coming of the Holy Spirit into their lives, had been promised…

Alleluia! Christ is risen! And, we remember today, is rising still. The Feast of the Ascension was a couple of days ago, but we always read the story of Jesus’ ascension on the Sunday following as well, on the last Sunday of Eastertide. The Feast of the Ascension is a strange holiday, I think, just as the biblical stories we tell on…