I once watched a movie called Babel, perhaps some of you may have as well. It’s a complicated movie in which there are four different story-lines that are connected in ways not always obvious to the viewer. Most of the confusion stems Read more →

There’s a story of a minister who as a young girl used to attend a church in which there was a very large stained glass window at the front divided into two panes. The left hand pane pictured Jesus kneeling in the Garden of Gethsemane, Read more →

God is love. For many that sums up the core of the Christian faith. God is love, so we should love God and we should love one another. Jesus doesn’t make many explicit commands in the Bible, but he makes one in our reading Read more →

Today’s reading from scripture involves one of the leaders of the early church, a man named Philip, and his encounter with an Ethiopian eunuch. In order to get the full context of what’s going on, we need to backtrack a couple of Read more →

Some years ago, I spent part of my summer in China teaching English. I attended an evening worship service in a church in the city of Fuzhou. In one of the rooms of that church was a large picture on the wall of Jesus, with long Read more →