4/24/2016 Joey Morningstar Psalm 136 Resonant Witness ed. Jeremy Begbie & Steven Guthrie Resounding Truth by Jeremy Begbie Creator Spirit by Steven Guthrie Seeing God in Jazz by Willie James Jennings (Fall 2011 Divinity Magazine)

4/10/16 Mike Boone Luke 24:13-35 “You’re pretty good with words, but words won’t save your life.” -Craig Finn from The Hold Steady’s Stuck Between Stations “The moment of recognition comes only as they sit at the table and Jesus breaks the bread with them – an action that recalls Jesus’ last supper with his disciples in Jerusalem. This point, too,  is […]

4/3/16 Chris Breslin Mark 16:1-8 “We interpret Scripture rightly only when we read it in light of the resurrection, and we begin to comprehend the resurrection only when we see it as the climax of the scriptural story of God’s gracious deliverance of Israel.” -Richard B. Hays, Reading Scripture in Light of the Resurrection from The Art of Reading Scripture […]

3/27/16 Chris Breslin John 20:1-18   “Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.” –N.T. Wright   “The Word through whom all things were made is now the Word through whom all things are remade…Jesus’ resurrection is to be seen as the beginning of the new world, the first […]

3/20/16 Chris Breslin Mark 11:1-11   The Donkey G.K. Chesterton   When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born.   With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things.   The tattered outlaw of the earth, […]

3/13/16 Joe Longarino Mark 13:1-27   The Coming R.S. Thomas And God held in his hand A small globe. Look he said. The son looked. Far off, As through water, he saw A scorched land of fierce Colour. The light burned There; crusted buildings Cast their shadows: a bright Serpent, A river Uncoiled itself, radiant With slime. On a bare Hill […]

3/13/16 Rachel Breslin & Meg Hoffman reflect about their week in Newark, DE at the Ecclesia Network National Gathering.

3/6/16 Chris Breslin Mark 12:28-44   Flickering Mind Denise Levertov   Lord, not you, it is I who am absent. At first belief was a joy I kept in secret, stealing alone into sacred places: a quick glance, and away—and back, circling. I have long since uttered your name but now I elude your presence. I stop to think about […]

2/28/16 Joey Morningstar Mark 12:13-17   From Thee to Thee Solomon Ibn Gabirol   When all within is dark, And former friends misprise; From them I turn to Thee, And find Love in Thine eyes. When all within is dark, And I my soul despise; From me I turn to Thee, And find love in Thine eyes. When all Thy […]

2/21/16 Chris Breslin Mark 10:32-52 Lightenings (xii) Seamus Heaney   And lightening? One meaning of that Beyond the usual sense of alleviation, Illumination, and so on, is this: A phenomenal instant when the spirit flares With pure exhilaration before death— The good thief in us harking to the promise! So paint him on Christ’s right hand, on a promontory Scanning […]