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  • The Turning Homeward of All Speckled Things

    Servants, Strangers, and the Light That Finds Them — A Reflection for Sixth Week of Great Lent (Palm Week) on Isaiah 49:6-10 and Genesis 31:3-16 The road to Jerusalem narrows. Christ has set His face toward the city that kills its prophets, and the disciples trail behind Him, afraid—Mark says so plainly: they were amazed;…

  • The Voice Beneath the Borrowed Skin

    Blessing, Deception, and the God Who Contends — A Reflection for Sixth Week of Great Lent (Palm Week) on Isaiah 48:17–49:4 and Genesis 27:1–41 Here is a strange thing the Church sets before you as Pascha draws near: a story of lies. Jacob wraps himself in goatskin, puts on his brother’s clothes, and speaks words…

  • The One Thing Behind the Veil

    Sitting at the Feet of the Living Ark — A Reflection for Fifth Week of Great Lent on Hebrews 9:1-7 and Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28 Consider the architecture of the old tabernacle as Hebrews lays it bare—candlestick, table, showbread in the first chamber; golden censer, manna-pot, Aaron’s rod, the covenant tablets, and the cherubim of glory…

  • The Hidden God Who Climbs the Mountain With You

    Where the Knife Falls and the Ram Appears — A Reflection for Fifth Week of Great Lent on Isaiah 45:11-17 and Genesis 22:1-18 A father wakes before dawn, saddles the beast, splits the kindling. He does not tell his wife. Three days he walks beside the boy who will die—three days in which every breath…

  • The Travailing God and the Dust That Dares

    Blindness, Boldness, and the Birth-Cry of New Creation — A Reflection for Fifth Week of Great Lent on Isaiah 42:5-16 and Genesis 18:20-33 Five weeks into the fast, and the body knows something the mind has not yet admitted. The hunger is no longer novel. The prayers have worn grooves. And somewhere beneath the discipline—beneath…

  • The Naming That Shatters Every Idol

    When God Holds the Hand That Cannot Hold Itself — A Reflection for Fifth Week of Great Lent on Isaiah 41:4-14 and Genesis 17:1-9 A father brings his seized, convulsing son to the disciples, and the disciples cannot heal him. Mark sets this scene at the midpoint of Jesus’ journey toward Jerusalem—toward the cross—and the…

  • The Horror of Great Darkness and the Wings

    Waiting Between the Carcasses and the Stars — A Reflection for Fifth Week of Great Lent on Isaiah 40:18-31 and Genesis 15:1-15 You have been fasting five weeks now. The body knows it—this thinning, this slow hollowing that Lent works upon the flesh. And something else knows it too: that deeper hunger the fast was…

  • The Wall, the Tent, and the Unclean Spirit

    Facing Death to Find the Promised Land — A Reflection for Fifth Week of Great Lent on Isaiah 37:33–38:6 and Genesis 13:12–18 A father kneels in the dust before Christ and says what you have been afraid to say: I believe; help thou mine unbelief (Mark 9:24). That confession—raw, unfinished, honest to the marrow—is the…

  • The Gardener Who Speaks Your Name

    Waking Among the Tombs — A Reflection for Fourth Sunday of Great Lent (St. John Climacus) on John 20:11-18 and Ephesians 5:9-19 She stands at the tomb and weeps. Note well: she does not flee. The others have scattered—Peter and the beloved disciple came, saw the linen wrappings folded with terrible neatness, and went home.…

  • The Cross Stands at Midpoint, Singing of the End

    Mortality Putting On Its Sunday Clothes — A Reflection for Fourth Week of Great Lent (Week of the Cross) on 1 Corinthians 15:47–57 and John 5:24–30 The Cross is planted at the centre of Lent like a tree in the middle of a garden—which, of course, is precisely what it is. We have walked half…