Joshua Whitfield
April 2, 2021
That he still bore scars is what I’ve always thought so beautiful. It’s what’s intrigued me more than almost anything else all these years about the story so many celebrate at Easter all over the world, believers, half-believers, unbelievers too. The story of resurrection, the idea of it, the hope of it.
April 1, 2021
Brutal are the reminders of our creatureliness, our frail nakedness.
April 1, 2021
A democracy fighting for its life, a body politic trying to survive: that’s what we’re seeing in Myanmar.
May 12, 2024
A mother was here earlier today. I stood with her, there in front of the altar.
April 27, 2024
We must be quite careful how we interpret these words of Jesus. John’s gospel is in every syllable a mystical text, and so one must take care not to read these words superficially or to misread them entirely.
April 21, 2024
You’ve often heard me say how our experience of Christianity, of the Church, is so very different from the Church of the past, from the Christianities of long ago.
April 14, 2024
It was a strange and gutsy thing to say, dangerous to interpret: what Peter said.
March 31, 2024
Happy Easter, everyone! Welcome to us! I hope you got the seats you wanted!
March 31, 2024
I’m a bit confused by the gospel reading we’ve just heard, this passage from Mark.