{This blog entry was originally posted on 4-14-2017. It has been slightly revised here.} The Gospels give us detailed records of Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. But little about that Saturday. Silence. On Good Friday, I think of the death. Brutal. Chaotic. Seemingly final. I’ve never...

This Lenten season, I'm doing something I've always wanted to do. I'm reading or listening to Jesus pray, every day. For me. I'm focusing on Jesus's last supper prayer in John 17. The Gospels contain numerous mentions of Jesus praying. I won't list them all here (although it's a great treasure...

This life requires much of us, doesn't it? So much perseverance to endure the hard stuff with flexibility to keep us from being broken. There is peace and there is turbulence. We're sometimes buffeted and sometimes buoyed in the storms. And no one can live it for us. Our experience of life is...