This week, with my feverish excuse in the rear view mirror, I nonetheless return to my Lenten companion, poet, and prophet Walter Wangerin. In his twenty third day devotion he drops us into the Good Friday moment when Pontius Pilate offers the people an apparently benevolent, yet politically motivated, gift: they may choose one prisoner…
In 1992 pastor, professor, writer, theologian, and storyteller Walter Wangerin Jr. wrote a Lenten devotional called Reliving the Passion. For each of the 40 days of Lent, Wangerin offers a reflection on several verses from the story of Christ’s passion in the Gospel of Mark. For more than twenty years I have relived the passion…
Oh what a night… At some point in my preparation for ministry I was taught the term kairos moment. As with an epiphany, a kairos moment is a defining one; one in which the very essence of the goodness and grace of God is captured in time. Three nights ago I had a kairos moment;…