Jesus

  • Get in the Boat!

    Bytrob

    When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid” [Matthew 14:26-27 (NIV)]. One of the harshest phenomena of the COVID-19 pandemic has been its effect on funerals and…

  • The Light-Sabered Farmer

    Bytrob

    And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow” [Matthew 13:3]. Although it has been almost 33 years since the day the transforming conversation took place, I remember it as if it were yesterday. The time was Autumn 1987. I was a 36-year-old second-year seminarian at Duke. The…