When you get on board BART, a Cal-Train, or even Amtrak, which seats do you choose?  Do you like the seats that face front, the direction...

What does silence mean to you?  Time to rest? Peace? Or “Oh, oh. The kids are too quiet. What are they up to now?”  Whatever silence...

Old Testament Reading 1Kings 19:9-15a NRSV 9  At that place he came to a cave and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came...

A bird or a flame. Traditionally, these are the most common images used as metaphors for the Holy Spirit. The ornithological metaphor is...

John 16:12-15 12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide...

There they were, a house full of them, Luke says, all moping around wondering what they were going to do without Jesus, when they heard a...

Acts 2:1-21 2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the...

“Prayer”, Kathleen Norris writes, “is being ourselves before God.” Having invested much of her time in working, studying and praying in a...

John 17:20-26 20 “I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may...

In the final chapter of his book The Remarkable Ordinary, author Frederick Buechner offers a disarming and often touching walk through an...

John 14:23-29 23  Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and...

I was standing in a hospital room many years ago now. It was during one of a dozen such stays after my dad's first heart surgery. A...

John 13:31-35 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of man glorified, and in him God is glorified; 32 if God is glorified...

Good Shepherd, Russian icon. … When we hear the lesson of the Good Shepherd, it is a grave and perhaps even diverting temptation to...

John 10:22-30 It was the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of...

I believe that we know much more about God than we admit that we know, than perhaps we altogether know that we know. God speaks to us, I...

John 21:1-19 21 After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and he showed himself in this way....

(Carved- Painted Frieze Notre Dame Cathedral – Paris) We have a common saying that expresses our insistence on tangible proof of every...

John 20:19-31 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the...

WE CAN SAY THAT the story of the Resurrection means simply that the teachings of Jesus are immortal like the plays of Shakespeare or the...