Tag: Control

This is a very strange passage. At the beginning of it, Paul and Silas have what many people would no doubt like - someone...

I’ve talked about control many times while writing this blog, and now I think it’s time to share something I was given near the...

Herod plays a strange role in Luke’s Gospel. Or one might say a mercurial role. He imprisons and beheads John the Baptist because he...

We want to be prepared for disaster. We stockpile food and clean water, learn survival skills, build bunkers. Well, I don’t, but some people...

As Jesus teaches in the temple, many of Luke’s themes of power and control, and the way that these things contrast with the dream...

Gerald May, in his beautiful book about St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, says this: When we were children, most of us...

First, let me introduce you to Andrew Hudgins’ poem, “Two Strangers Enter Sodom.” Two Strangers Enter Sodom by Andrew Hudgins Those who’d seen them told the others, and...

Jesus upends the lives and thoughts of the Pharisees, and they respond with anger.  He sees that they’re angry, but instead of trying to...

There are many reasons why we might find ourselves in the wilderness.  When my mother died, I spent a year in a wilderness of...

The Gospels claim, and Christians believe, that divinity is entangled with humanity.  The evangelists go even further. When Jesus talks about the Kingdom of...