Dining on Jesus

This morning we come to the end of the Bread of Life discourses that began three weeks ago with the feeding of the five thousand. Up until now, Jesus’ words have been reasonable as we are easily able to understand his use of symbolic language. This morning’s Gospel reading, however, is much harder to take…

The Food of Life

This past week, I was invited to attend a preaching circle.  Preaching circles are something new to the diocese designed to bring clergy together to share homilies and discuss elements of preaching to a post-modern, un-churched world.  It was also a chance for the clergy to spend a little time gripping about the current lectionary…

Feasting on the Bread of Life

I don’t think I have ever been more proud of our daughter Kayleigh than during the Spring of her senior year in high school.  It appears, in the course of a class discussion on Waiting for Godot, the class explored the different possible outcomes for the play based on the understanding that Godot is God. …