Mark 5:21-43 There is so much richness in the stories before us now. There is courage and fear, despair and hope. There is power and generosity and joy in the healing we witness. And there is, as always, our wonderment at all of its meaning for us. I found myself returning again and again to …
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On Charleston and the Gaping Wound of Racism and the Cloak of Jesus
Mark 5:21-43 Along with many of you, I have found myself devastated in these last days at the news of the murders of the nine who had gathered for prayer and study last Wednesday night at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. As Presiding Bishop Eaton of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America …
On Healing and Wholeness
Mark 5:21-43 It was the Thursday before Father’s day when I stood in a hospital waiting room with a family. We were waiting to hear from their daughter’s surgeon. The child is 13 years old. The surgeon arrived and delivered the much welcome news that he believed the cancer was contained. There appeared to be …