When you held your first-born baby, or grandchild, or any infant, you probably did not think, “This is how God was!” C.S. Lewis famously noted that the greatest miracle of Christianity is not the resurrection but the incarnation. If you can accept that God became a baby, the resurrection should not be a problem. The …
Category Archives: Devotion
WAS JESUS ABANDONED?
When from the cross Jesus cries out: “My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?” he felt the full consequences of human sin, which separates from all that is good, including God who is good. To embrace human sinfulness in bodily life in loving self-sacrifice, as Jesus did, pushed him to the outermost edges …
BUT … IT IS POLITICAL!
In recent days I have heard several people say something like: “I am not trying to be political, now, …” or “Please don’t take this as a political statement,” or “Not to be political but … !” I think I know what each was trying to say, or not to say. But each time I …
THE GLORY AND THE PEACE
“Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace for people of God’s good will (Luke 2:14).” It is common to pass quickly from these traditional words of praise to the detailed account of what the Shepherds discovered at the Bethlehem crèche—the child swaddled, parents adoringly attending, and the animals carrying on as usual. …
POLITICAL QUESTIONS–WHAT (do we do) NOW?
What some might have thought unthinkable has happened. This November citizens of the United States will cast ballots to elect either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton as their next President. Conceivably it could be different, but only in the same way we often say, “I suppose anything can happen.” That it comes to such a …