This was the very first image of the very first Renaissance Service I ever did. Folks entered a candlelit sanctuary w/ this image projected on a photographer’s seamless on the altar…as if to say “Come unto me, all who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
One of my oldest friends recently shared this short film she helped make a few years back. There could be any number of existential takes on its meaning. It would make a great Public Service Announcement in our drought-stricken state, to be sure. But to me it speaks of a deeper thirst, a bleaker dryness.Continue reading “Thirsty”
Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread. 1 Corinthians 11:23 After bitter herbs, I place upon the table my strange bread and wine, a really hard saying. Wise men are wary of this leap over a fisherman’s tally of the catch, a tax collector’s pinch of each extracted coin.Continue reading “The Leap of Faith”
Today I am dropping my son Graham off at the airport for a 12-day business trip— an amazing adventure and work opportunity rolled into one. I’m so happy for him. But I’m also keenly aware that this will be the first Easter in 23 years that we have not celebrated all together as a family.Continue reading “Easter baskets, God, and Graham”
….It was hard to imagine getting our little ragtag group back to a comfortable level of dialogue, let alone a fluid, exultant exchange, but that one simple question, asked after an instant of prayer, transformed everything. How does the life of Jesus change your understanding of God? The answers came, one after another, from ValContinue reading “Alistair the Barrister, redeemed”
Heather Choate Davis