by jakeowensby | Jan 15, 2021 | John 1:43-51
“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.” This is Richard Rohr’s amplification of Jesus’s famous teaching: the truth will set you free. (Falling Upward, p. 74; John 8:32) What I take Rohr—and more basically Jesus—to be saying is something like...
by jakeowensby | Jan 12, 2018 | 2 Epiphany B, John 1:43-51
Star Wars fans have been mixed in their reception of “The Last Jedi.” My daughter Meredith and I saw it together. We both loved it, each for our own reasons. Among other things, the role of holy texts in the Jedi religion caught my attention. Doing my best to avoid...