RCL Reflection, 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C, May 19, 2019
The way of Jesus is the way of love AND the way of breaking down barriers and drawing wider circles of inclusion. This kind of real, radical, big love changes things. It’s the key that opens minds, the warmth that softens hard hearts, the light that illumines the dark places, and the hammer that takes down walls. (Photo: Steven Lilley, Creative Commons)
Peace, Walls, and Fractured-Faith Forecasting
Lectionary Reflection
August 15, 2010, 12th Sunday after Pentecost
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” says the narrator in Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall.” Could that “something” be the gospel? We humans build walls that Jesus is in the business of shattering, but there is still pain and cost. How do we preach this text without throwing up additional walls?