Apr 11, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Show me the proof Thomas lives and breathes in all of us. We want concrete proof and we are unwilling to be gullible when people tell us fantastic tales. Belief cannot be forced. We cannot believe what we cannot believe. So, each of us has that journey between...
Apr 6, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Easter celebrations are a time for gathering with family and connecting with others, including the through Christian rituals of Holy Week and Easter Day. Our family recently hosted a Japanese exchange student, and we appreciated the inter-cultural exchange. Our...
Mar 28, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
On the day we call Palm Sunday, a week before Easter, Jesus wanted a big celebration. Jesus had his friends find a donkey for him to ride on. Then he got on and rode the donkey into Jerusalem, while people lined the sides of the road. Some of them made a carpet for...
Mar 23, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Sometimes I think I’m like Lazarus, entombed in fear, apathy, prejudice, gloom, … But I have heard a call, “Rosalind, come out!” And I have stumbled out, still greatly hindered by the limiting layers of self-doubt, the old voices in my head that say, “You’re not good...
Mar 14, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Grief comes in many forms: grief at the death of a loved one or respected leader; grief as we watch illness rob someone of precious abilities; grief as we discover that we will never reach a cherished personal goal or grief when someone for whom we had high hopes...
Mar 7, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Water is the source of life, but also of destruction. Exodus 17 tells of people desperate for water. It wasn’t that others had appropriated that which was given for all. They just didn’t know where their next drink would come from, and they expected their leader to...
