The image of the Temple filled with crowds, moneychangers, animals and birds for sacrifice was an assault on the senses: the sight of cages and holding pens; the sounds of bleating, flapping wings and shouting voices, the smells of manure, urine and smoke. It was also a place where the complicity between Roman taxes, priestly…
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Bulletin
Sir Isaac Newton, the 18th century English mathematician and physicist, said this about discovery: “I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” For Jesus’ disciples, that clear light took place on the mountaintop in today’s…
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Bulletin
Have you ever heard the click as the door locks behind you – and at that instant, you remember that you don’t have the keys? Have you ever gotten locked out of your car with the engine still running? This week, the doorway to Lent clicks behind us and we face five weeks of encounter.…
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