by Lynda Hart | May 19, 2025
This verse from the Gospel of John is one that has been resonating in my brain since Maundy Thursday, though I’m not entirely sure why. I mean, is it just me, or is the idea of being commanded to love strike you as odd, perhaps even somewhat off-pitting. It...
by Lynda Hart | May 12, 2025
It seems that God has far less of a problem being referred to in the feminine than we have with referring to God as such. We don’t talk about God as woman or mother, and I suspect that it’s largely because Jesus always spoke of God as Father. Unfortunately, nowadays,...
by Lynda Hart | May 5, 2025
In vacant places, we will build with new bricks.There are hands and machinesAnd clay for new brick and lime for new mortar.Where the bricks are fallen we will build with new stone.Where beams are rotten we will build with new timbers.Where the word is unspoken we will...
by Lynda Hart | Apr 28, 2025
They walk the seven miles from Jerusalem to Emmaus, first sharing their common grief, and then entering into a strange conversation with their unexpected companion, who unfolds the story of salvation through resurrection to them. Somehow, they cannot recognize their...
by Lynda Hart | Apr 22, 2025
John’s account of Jesus’ resurrection appearance begins with tears: “Mary stood outside the tomb crying” (John 20:11). The greatest day of all time, the root of our joy as Christians, begins with grief. The tears of Good Friday and Holy Saturday were still wet on the...
by Lynda Hart | Apr 14, 2025
Palm Sunday is the celebration of the commemoration of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem the city of the King. What is the significance of the triumphal entry? The story of the triumphal entry is one of the few incidents in the life of Jesus which appears in...
