Margaret Bick

He wasn’t planning to have guests over that day. He just wanted to see. He wanted to see who Jesus was. So he climbed a tree. Zacchaeus was probably about my height, but I’ve never come close to being able to climb a tree. Fortunately for…

Tonight we begin a journey that takes us from the table to the cross and onward to new life lived in the shadow of that cross and in the light of the Risen Son. And so we wash feet. What a strange time Jesus chose to wash feet — during…

Today we are offered two very different visions of right living before God. One is to blindly follow the letter of the law; the other is to follow its heart. It is tempting in daily life to hold others to the letter of the law and ourselves…

At first hearing, Jesus’ command to his friends sounds too easy to be true. His command is to love. But this is easier said than done, more complicated than the list-specific “shalts” and “shalt nots” of the Ten Commandments. If we try to…