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Mark doesn’t promise too much, to start. He is living at a time of bad news. Very bad news. And, in the middle of that, he has experienced good news!

No, it’s not that we’re so anxious for 2020 to be over that we’re deluding ourselves into a magical fast-forward.

On this Thanksgiving Sunday, we want to consider one of the most important of all Christian virtues, gratitude.

The Parable of the Talents, the lectionary text for Sunday, may be a familiar one to you.  Perfect for Commitment Sunday…

‘What are you worried about?’ I asked in an email to the church community.  And I got back a flood of responses.

This week I have gotten in touch with the huge sense of loss that comes from thinking about the staggering loss of life of the past 8 months.

This week, we finally reach the end of Moses’ story. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, he dies just as the Promised Land is within reach.

Jesus said, “Where your treasure is there will your heart be also.”  Whether we are people of faith or not, There is always something we worship…

Our wilderness wandering continues this week. We find ourselves, like the Israelites, desperate for a destination and not knowing how to summon it.

Stories like this one, of the Israelites complaining about lack of food, lack of water, lack of leadership, scholars call ‘murmuring stories’.