EASTER 4 | 1 Jn 3:16-24; Jn 10:11-18 An additional reading from the Gospel of John: Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these thing

EASTER 2 | 1 Jn 1:1-2:2; Jn 20:19-31 In my early 20s I walked away from my faith. I had good reason to—I’d been horribly wounded by a crazily fundamentalist church my family attended while I was in high school. The urge to walk away from the kind of abuse I withstood and suffered was healthy, but it left me unmoored and uncomfortable. But once I was away, it was easy to stay away. Few of my friends at that point were very religious, and the lure of sex, drugs, and rock 'n rol

EASTER SUNDAY 2018 | Is 25:6-9; Mk 16:1-8 When I was a kid, one of my favorite books of all time was Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. Now, first of all, I was hooked on Bradbury. I never started a Bradbury book that I didn’t finish the same day. He was utterly addicting to me. There is, in all of his writing, a cake-thick nostalgia intertwined with both loss and joy. It was an intoxicating brew that no other author I have ever encountered can confect. It still