“If you love me, you will keep my commandments… those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.” This week’s Gospel begins and ends with love, which is only fitting on a Sunday when we remember the self-giving love of mothers.
My friend Leslie Nipps has written … Read the rest
Continue reading "The Mother of All Wisdom" »Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” It’s a good question, no? The kind of clarity-seeking question we have come to expect of Thomas the doubter, who wanted to see it before he believed it. And from our vantage point in the Episcopal Church during this … Read the rest
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I chanced to be listening to a favorite radio news station show a few days ago, when—because its election season—the programming had been commandeered by a broadcast debate between the mayoral candidates of our nearby metropolis of San Jose. The candidates are both liberal democrats, so in order to liven things up, a comedian in the … Read the rest
