300 words a day

The people ate and were satisfied.

“At once, the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days,” Mark writes. It was Jesus’ first mission after being baptized and blessed by God. He was with wild animals, he was tempted by Satan, and, eventually, he was fed by angels. He understood, from the inside, hunger. […]

by Jon Swanson

Do you still not understand?

“He said to them, ‘Do you still not understand?’” As Mark tells the story, this response of Jesus comes at the end of a three-part story. In the first part, Jesus has a conversation with his disciples about feeding the crowd of about 4000 people that has been with them for three days. And then […]

by Jon Swanson

A prayer for Easter.

God. Happy Easter. Or happy resurrection day. We work hard to find exactly the right words to use for greetings on this day. Because we want to navigate the right ways to express our faith or to not offend someone. Knowing, some of us, that the people we’re most afraid of offending are the people […]

by Paul Merrill

For Us

Good Friday. To those who follow Jesus, this day is a time to remember the sacrifice He made by dying a horribly painful death on a cross. Those who are Catholic seem to have a better grasp of the terrible pain Jesus experienced as he died on a cross. You’ll find a painting of this […]

by Jon Swanson

It happens suddenly.

They were at supper. And then Jesus washed their feet. They were at supper. And then Jesus had this odd conversation with Judas and he left. They were at supper. And then Jesus offered this strangely familiar, strangely new moment with the bread and the wine. They were out in the garden, as they had […]