Remembering Forward

In her book “How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going: Leading in a Liminal Season,” Susan Beaumont offers valuable insight into healthy and unhealthy ways of navigating what she calls “liminal seasons”–those seasons of transition where something has come to an end, but the next thing has… Continue reading

The Pattern of Resurrection

If divine incarnation has any truth to it, then resurrection is a foregone conclusion, and not a one-time anomaly in the body of Jesus, as our Western understanding of the resurrection felt it needed to prove–and then couldn’t. The Risen Christ is not a one-time miracle but the revelation of… Continue reading

Good Friday Station 15: The Hope of Resurrection

a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross The hope of resurrection. The expectation that life can happen again. The anticipation that what can be seen now is not what will be seen in the future. The hope of resurrection: the sign of God’s abundant grace… Continue reading

Good Friday Station 14: Jesus is Laid in the Tomb

a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross This station invites us to sit in that uncomfortable space of waiting for the resurrection. Because we know what happens, we often jump from the crucifixion to the resurrection. But there’s a tomb first. There’s a naming that… Continue reading

Good Friday Station 13: Jesus is Laid in the Arms of his Mother

a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross I recently watched a TV cop show where a child was struck by a stray bullet, and the child’s mother was devastated as she cradled her child’s body in her arms. The narrator for this station invites us… Continue reading

Good Friday Station 12: Jesus Dies Upon the Cross

a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross Jesus cries out on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,” and breathes his last. In this act of surrender and desperation, the curtain is torn. In the very act of Jesus crying out… Continue reading

Good Friday Station 11: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross

a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross It’s getting harder, this journey to the cross. The images of what is happening to Jesus are getting more painful. I’m being asked to follow Jesus into this part of the journey that can only have been unimaginably… Continue reading

Good Friday Station 10: Jesus is Stripped of His Garments

a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross At the center of our faith practice is the sacrament of Communion, where we extend our hands as we hear the words “the body of Christ, given for you…the blood of Christ shed for you.” While the scene… Continue reading