Author Archives: christiarts

(This is the text of my sermon for March 15.  The readings referred to are Exodus 17:1-7, and Jn 4: 5-42.  In our readings today, things are more than what they seem.) “Give us a drink.” That is what the … Continue reading →

Luke 6:17-26, NRSV: 17[Jesus] came down with [the twelve] and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.18They had … Continue reading →

I love rocks.  In fact, my house is full of baskets and bowls full of rocks from all sorts of places, and wherever I go I manage to squirrel away a rock or two in my suitcase to bring home. … Continue reading →

Watersource, Watercourse, cloud pregnant with rain, fill up the riverbeds, fill the wadis, overflow the cisterns, carry us the water even the water of justice and peace.