So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. We mentioned yesterday how unsatisfying Mark’s ending is. After all, the women at the tomb received a) a clear “good news signal” and b) were given...
Money
posted by DJL
I’m beginning work on a book on stewardship. Except I don’t want to call what I’m writing about “stewardship” for two reasons: 1) Stewardship means a lot more than money, but I really want to talk about money and don’t want to shortchange stewardship of gifts, the...
Mark 16:8
posted by DJL
So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. Fair warning: I don’t think we can give this verse the attention it deserves in one reflection, so I plan on spending a couple of days on this particular...
The Secrets We Keep
posted by DJL
Frank Warren keeps secrets. Actually, he doesn’t keep them, he posts them. Frank created and runs the website Postsecret.com where people anonymously send him a secret about themselves they haven’t told anyone. In this TEDTalk, Frank shares some of those secrets and talks a bit about how the sharing of secrets has rippled out in interesting, unpredictable, and often wonderful ways. We all have secrets, some that perhaps we’ll never share. And that’s important to remember. I suspect that we we think of any given person, we tend to think that the person we see – at work, or school, or church…or even at home – is the whole person....
Mark 16:5-7
posted by DJL
As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid...