A crucified God is not the status quo, and it is isn’t made into the acceptable, the intellectually palatable, by the proclamation of the resurrection.

All of us have interior afflictions that paralyze us, like the unnamed ailment that ravaged the man in Luke’s Gospel and left him motionless on a stretcher.

Complacency is an occupational hazard of participating in a two-thousand year old belief system.

First Saturday of Advent

Dec. 2, First Friday of Advent.

If we are honest, to hear is to disobey, particularly if God’s words do not comport with our own plans.