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My beloved mother finally passed away in July 2024. Finally?! What a strange word to use. I use this word because she had so many “close brushes with death” since May 2022. My mother had so many emergencies and close calls, and we’d said our goodbyes too many times. Yet every time she pulled through

This Sunday, the lectionary invites us to ponder Mark 10:2-16. The English Standard Version divides the portion into two passages. It supplies the title “Teaching about Divorce” to the first, and the title “Let the Children come to me,” to the second. I’ll focus on the first. In this passage, Mark tells us that “Pharisees”

This Sunday, the lectionary invites us to ponder Mark 9:38-50. The English Standard Version divides the passage into two parts and supplies the headings “Anyone not Against us is for us,” and “Temptations to Sin.” I’ll focus on verse 38, which reads, John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your

This Saturday is the 14th day in September. It’s Holy Cross day. On this day, the lectionary invites us to ponder John 3:13-17. In the English Standard Version, these verses span two sections, with the headings “You Must Be Born Again,” and “For God So Loved the World.” Chow Kit is considered one of the

This Sunday, the lectionary invites us to ponder Mark 7:24-37. The English Standard Version divides the passage into two parts and supplies them with the headings “The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith,” and “Jesus Heals a Deaf Man.” A year ago, I wrote about the parallel account in Matthew 15, about the Syrophoenician woman’s faith. I titled

This Sunday the lectionary invites us to ponder Mark 7:1-23.[1] The English Standard Version divides it into two parts. It titles the first part “Traditions and Commandments” and the second part, “What Defiles a Person?” In the previous chapter, Mark described Jesus sending out the twelve members of his inner circle. He sent them out