It’s Super Bowl Sunday. Tonight the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers will play for the NFL championship. They will be watched by millions and for good reason. These are two excellent teams, but their styles and strengths are different.
Nevertheless, I am prepared to make a few bold predictions about the game, and I am confident that each will prove to be accurate.
Read MoreOne of the enlivening aspects of scripture is how very deep it goes. Often, we start looking carefully at a passage and it yields point after point of reference, so that what we see on the surface becomes enriched by the depths of thought and experience beneath it. Our scriptures today beg such an excavation. How often do we hear the words “Zebulun and Naphtali?” Today we’ve heard them three times.
Read MoreThis season of Epiphany brings us again and again back to the theme of light, starting with the star as a sign that points us to Jesus. Scripture repeatedly returns to that theme of light and darkness as it pertains to Jesus.
Light is one of the most useful metaphors and analogies for the ways that we understand ourselves as Christians in terms of our faith and our religion. Please note that I am making a distinction between faith and religion. They are related – inextricably bound – but they are not the same thing.
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