Rising to new life each day – an Easter sermon

The pastor Nadia Bolz Weber calls Mary Magdalene the Patron Saint of Showing Up. On that dark Friday, when Jesus was hung up on a cross on a hill outside of Jerusalem, his body broken and bloody, the life seeping out of him, Mary Magdalene showed up, when most of his followers had scattered. She…

right now. march 2015.

It’s been one of those March’s when, as Dickens wrote, “the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade.” We’ve been escaping to the nearby parks on the sunny days, enjoying lunches on the patio with blankets over our knees, and Baby Girl…