To those who lived in that world of fear, it must have seemed absurd that an infant would be the answer to their fear.

However it happens, at some point, you will realize that you have no idea where you are, and that there are a lot of unfriendly beasts out there in the world.

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