Conversation with Paula Steinbacher from Tabernash
Category: Faith
The Impossible Cross
Images to accompany a piano solo from Ash Wednesday Worship
The Miracle That’s Left-Over
Feeding the 5000, 4000…relying on Abundance in our efforts to pull it all apart. Paul Ricouer and “The Surplus of Meaning” help get us out of a post-modern fear.
Transfigured into Something Recognizable
Sunday reflection on the synoptic treatment of the one of the most important gospel episodes. John sees things WAY differently…and maybe you should too?
For a Church Looking Up
Permission to Heal and Be Healed
reflections on the Paralytic lowered through the roof, what sin may or may not have to do with it, and “their faith”
The Year of the Rat
I walked into the retirement home wondering if we would ever again be able to tell truth from lies, propaganda from news. These are dishonest, sleazy days. A rat is somebody who tells. But what they tell is the truth; or it wouldn’t warrant telling. So who is afraid of a rat? Who’s afraid of a Whistle-blower? An acquaintance, Colleen, was dying upstairs on a mild Colorado winter evening at the start of the New Year. My wife Julie and I stopped for a visit. Climbing the stairs I thought…
The Four Approaches
The Four gospel writers give us a way to understand and tell our own version of What Is…
The Temptations of the Christs
Reflecting on the gospel’s similar and not-so-similar approaches to the Wilderness Temptation between Jesus and You Know Who
Advent II: Holding On, Holding Out
The Annunciation in the context of “The Women Who Carried Him”