The occasion for Jesus’s footwashing was most likely the night of what came to be called “The Last Supper.” As the followers of Jesus gathered in the Upper Room to celebrate the Jewish Passover with a seder (a special traditional dinner combining ritual with informality, hilarity with solemnity), no one

     That’s a question that has provoked many answers, actually generating more questions.  Sometimes you will hear people say, “He came to show us God’s love. He came to be an example for us.”  Of course, that’s true.  But there is a final, all- encompassing answer:  Jesus came to

     I was reflecting on the old expression, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”  To a certain degree I think I understand that.  It is tweaking our imagination to realize that we have our whole life still ahead of us and can make it what

I have always been intrigued by manger scenes, ever since my childhood.  I like to imagine what each participant was thinking, and wonder if the song of the angels was still humming and vibrating in the night sky.  Where did the concept of re-producing a manger scene originate?  Tradition says

Since November is the season of Thanksgiving, I want to reflect upon the words of one of our most familiar hymns.  When I was a child, my little Methodist Church sang it faithfully each Thanksgiving.  Before I even tried to understand the words, the melody sang itself into my head,

Many of the Bible’s key events can be understood in two different ways. The first way is that God performed a supernatural miracle; the second, that it was only a natural event. One key event is the Exodus. Here, according to the narrative, a conscripted labor force, a Hebrew tribe,