Many in this City Are My People

July 20, 2003Readings: Acts 18: 5-17 From the time you were children, you knew that Jesus was in trouble with the Jews. Every child from church knows that this hostility finally led to his death on the cross. When we read in Acts that fights broke out in the...

Spirit in the Dark

June 23, 2003Readings: 1 Samuel 17: 32-49 & Acts 16: 6-15Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vitaMi ritrovai per una selva oscurache la diritta via era smarrita. Those are the opening verses of Dante’s Divine Comedy: “In the middle of the road of our life,...

James’ Job

Trinity Sunday June 15, 2003Readings: Acts 15: 1-33 This is it: vision and mission meet. When James says, “I have reached the decision that we should not trouble those Gentiles who are turning to God”–right there, the vision that Peter received on...

The Things that Make for Peace

April 13, 2003Readings: Isaiah 50: 4-9 ; Luke 19: 28-48 It’s Palm Sunday. On this nice warm day, you–some of you–have no doubt been hoping for a word of encouragement in the faith, a word reassuring about God and family, about love and community....