A18: The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
March 23, 2020
“Can you smell that?” asks Scott Spencer’s wife. “No dear,” he replies, not to fret her, but because he genuinely doesn’t smell it. Spencer, author and New Testament scholar, says of today’s passage, John 11:1-45,...
C19: The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year C (2019)
April 1, 2019
“There was a place called Bethany…the house of the afflicted,” begins Rev. Rachel May. In John 12:1-8, Jesus is at the house of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. May continues, “The good news is embedded in...
C22: The Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C (2016)
April 12, 2016
After several painful meetings in which the new leadership at the monastery where I was living gave me long lists of why I would never be a good priest, I asked the newest leader the...