Opening Words: The Gospel of Mark tells it this way:  “And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?” Looking up, they saw […]

Virginia Satir wrote a book she called, “PEOPLE MAKING.” It’s about parenting and it’s about families and the importance of how we talk to one another, how we listen to one another, how we forgive one another, and how we continue to learn how to be in loving relationship with one another, not only in […]

In his wonderful novel, The Chosen, Chaim Potok has a Hasidic Rabbi, Reb Saunders, talk about his very intelligent son, Reuven, expressing his concern and his worry, like all parents worry. At one point he has the rabbi look up and talk directly to God, saying, “Master of the Universe, what have you done to me? […]

Life is serious business. Take the matter of being born. It isn’t easy for any of the principal characters in the drama. Then there’s the ongoing struggle to grow up – learning to walk, and falling down again and again without throwing in the proverbial towel and crawling through life.  The challenge of learning to […]

Last week we looked at Jesus; the man, the myth, and the message. We know very little about the actual man, the historical Jesus; we know a lot about the myth, which is often presented as history, and the message is simple – be nice. Today we’ll look at the same three aspects of the […]