Adam Yates

Who was healed? It is the question I find myself coming back to over and over as I read our story from the Acts of the Apostles this morning. Admittedly, at first this sounds like a somewhat stupid question, one easily answered with another question, “Who was raised from the dead?” But the longer one […]

We often think of Jesus’ beatitudes with a warm and glowing feeling, but when you really sit with them, they are troubling. They make us uncomfortable. They can even be hard to wrap our imaginations around. After all, we like the idea of being comforted and fed, especially when we are hungry and weeping, but

As I reflect on my life, I realize that my own understanding of who Jesus is has changed many times. When I was a child, he was the subject of many stories that I was told in Sunday school and in church. I believed that he was God because that’s what people, that’s what adults,

Jeff and John were an older couple when I knew them. They had married a few years before, when same-sex marriage had been legalized, but they had been together for many decades. They were faithful members of the congregation, rarely missing a Sunday and their gregarious and extroverted personalities meant that they could always be