May 20, 2007 Sunday of the Ascension Luke 24:44-53 and Acts 1:1-11 Last week, after announcing Brian Hess’ graduation from college, one of our children marched up to me in the back of the church and announced: Mommy graduated this week too! I looked up at her mother, Marielena, who, before I could apologize for [...]
Acts 9:36-43 Revelation 21:1-4 Two days after the Virginia Tech massacre of 32 students and the hopeless, angry suicide of their killer, I was driving in a rental car toward another campus, the University of Maryland, where my daughter attends school. I already knew from talking with her that two friends there had lost a [...]
Easter Day Mark 16:1-8 We had already been in church all day — all our life, it seemed tracing the well worn pat down from Bethlehem to Calvary, from Creation to Apocalypse the way of redemption, our Life-story like the women, we had been warned of resurrection but were almost too weary to credit it. [...]
