Stephen Colón

A view of a tiffany stained glass window with repeating scale-like tiles in a rainbow pattern, seen from below.

God and us

Sermons on Mark

What is an “apocalypse?”

Mark 13.5-37; Revelation 21.1-7

That is certainly an interesting interpretation, but I don’t I don’t think it’s the point. The book talks about like dragons and stuff and even people in Mark’s day knew that like fire breathing dragons were not actually happening around them. I think there’s a different point to what to what John of Patmos is…
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Hope is the thing with feathers

Mark 2-4

In the five pericopes we read—the five little chunks of scripture—we saw Jesus’ interactions with the disciples, with the people of Israel, and with foreigners—and at times, his interactions are puzzling. But after spending the last week meditating on this, I think there’s a common thread here: Jesus invites everyone around to listen for, or…
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