Posted by a friend today: “My husband and I were talking on the phone yesterday as he was driving. We were talking about all the stress we were under with the many things life has thrown at us lately. It’s like when one thing goes wrong, it becomes a domino...
A heretical bishop in the United Methodist Church had written that this story, told in Matthew 15:21-28 and in Mark 7:24-30, is an example of Jesus’ bigotry and misogyny, that he would ignore a Gentile woman’s pleading for help. But as I wrote then, after...
I have been watching the Charlie Gard drama from across the Atlantic Ocean with a heart that aches. Little Charlie has been given up on by the “system”, though his parents desperately yearn to continue the fight for his life and, believing that there is a medical...
Students at Titus 2 and others of us this week have been considering ‘resilience’. Resilience is defined as “the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; ability to recover readily from illness,...
Matthew 7:7-8 “Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.” It has always been interesting to me how, when...
