The Samaritan Woman at the Well. Her name is Photini - which in Greek means LIGHT. Appropriate because she truly is a light for many who feel unseen or unheard.

Nicodemus comes to Jesus with a question, and Jesus answers him in a way totally different from what Nicodemus was anticipating – totally unexpected. This is week two in Lent, and we are working our way toward Easter and Resurrection in an attempt to understand how we have an inside/out kind of faith.

Welcome to Lent, and the wilderness - what will your first step into the season look like?

What is Jesus REALLY saying in these passages about divorce, unaliving folks, and sweating oaths? Time to dig deep, friends and hear this in a different way.

Jesus calls us to be salty and get lit. I said what I said.

Imagine hearing for the first time that you are blessed when all you have ever been told is the opposite. Today’s reading is a blessing and a challenge to enter into a deepening of relationships with one another, with our communities, with the needy, and with God.

And what’s that thing, you ask? Come (and follow) and find out!

When reality defies all expectations, what are we to do? Just dive right in. Embrace it just as we are embraced, of course!

It’s Epiphany and we are all asking ourselves what it is we are searching for this year. Like the Magi know, the path to discovering what we are seeking is often complicated and really freaking hard at times. And yet! There is hope…

this week in Advent we find ourselves alongside Joseph as we journey toward love. His journey toward love is a complicated, messy path involving the work of self love, acceptance and grace.