“Do not be afraid… He is not here; for he has been raised.” This morning begins in darkness. Matthew tells us that “after the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.” They come carrying grief and...

Tonight we come to one of the holiest, tenderest, and most uncomfortable nights of the Christian year. Maundy Thursday brings us into an upper room, into a borrowed space, into the final intimate hours before betrayal, arrest, violence, and death. It is a night of bread and wine. A night...

John’s ninth chapter begins with a man sitting by the roadside, a man born blind, and almost immediately the people around him begin talking about him rather than to him. The disciples ask, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” It is a cruel...