John 3:14-21 Now I know all the arguments for not equating darkness with ‘evil.’ I agree with them and I have carried my deep awareness with me as I write today. It’s just that these words from John speak of light and darkness, which I also understand as lightness and heaviness today. So forgive me …
Tag: Lent 3B
Cleaning Out The Temple: Making Way For God To Do a New Thing
I Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 This is surely one of those weeks when the lessons not only compliment one another, they deepen and expand our understanding of their meaning. For in the one we hear Jesus saying there is a new, another way, which will find its truest form in his death and resurrection. And …
The ‘Anger’ of Jesus: Cleansing the Temple
John 2:13-22 As I sit with the familiar scene before us now, it occurs to me that maybe my first instinct is to ‘over-humanize’ Jesus — that perhaps I am attributing too much of what I see in you and me to him. And yet, at least in my experience, this is precisely what many …
Fresh Eyes: Jesus Cleansing the Temple
John 2:13-22 Like many of you, my attention has been captured in these last days by the matter of ‘the dress.’ You know the one I’m talking about: that one which is making its rounds on the internet these days and has captured the imagination of early morning news hosts. That dress which is clearly …
Barriers and Broken Hearts
John 2:13-22 It was a long time ago now… an Easter morning, in fact, and my mother and I were heading out to church. We were visiting my sister and she had thought about joining us, but it was a particularly heartbreaking time in her life and she decided at the last minute that she …