My brother David taught me to read at 4 years old – he insisted I would read before the next door neighbor 8 months older than me, the one who let me play touch football with the big kids, the one who taught me to drive using his own car – manual transmission – I […]

Psalm 23 is one of the most familiar passages in scripture. Some of you, like me, had a painting of Jesus tenderly holding a lamb with another sheep looking trustingly up at the Good Shepherd. Some of you, like me, when you attend a memorial service where the 23rd Psalm is read, find yourself mouthing […]

Some scholars think the Gospel of John may have originally ended at ch 20 with the story of Jesus appearing to Thomas. The last few lines of John 20 seem to be a good way to wrap up the gospel: “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not […]