…doesn’t stay in baptism. by Danielle Shroyer Gospel Reading: Mark 1:9-15 For Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012:  Year B—Lent 1 Why is Mark always in such a hurry? Sometimes when I’m reading his Gospel I get the sense that he’s rolling his eyes, impatient that we’re asking him to tell the story at all. In a [...]

There’s something kind of violent about transforming someone by Rev. Mike Baughman Gospel Reading:  Mark 9:2-9 For Sunday, February, 19th: Year B—Transfiguration Sunday Transfiguration—apart from Harry Potter conversations, I never use this word.  I can’t put it in a sentence with anything other than Jesus’ Clorox bleach commercial.  Online dictionaries are inconsistent and mostly define the [...]