The Treasures We Carry Homeward

From Ezra 8: 21-36 “You as well as these articles are consecrated to the Lord…. Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the Lord.”  Ezra 8: 28-29a This is not a very familiar passage from a very familiar part of the Bible. So, who...

BETWEEN FRIENDS: A Letter

Acts 28: 1-16 From: Centurion Gaius Julius Antipor, Augustan Regiment in Caesarea, Palestine, writing from Appian Forum, Italy, on the Twenty-First day of Februarium,  810th Year from Rome’s Founding To: Officer in charge of Receiving and Detaining Prisoners,...

TO OUR FORBIDDEN GOD

from Daniel 6 My earliest childhood memory, from when I was but three years old, is of my Father holding me in the darkness of midnight, rocking me, stroking my head and telling me that everything was all right, that I was safe, and that I could stop screaming. “But...