by jakeowensby | Mar 26, 2021 | Mark 14:1-15:47
Suffering happens. It happens to the good and the bad, the clever and the clueless, the rich and the poor, the devout and the profane. Despite all our best efforts, we fall and we fail. Pain, loss, and eventually death will visit each of us. To riff on the writer of...
by jakeowensby | Mar 23, 2018 | Mark 14:1-15:47, Palm Sunday B
Jesus chose to die. He could have ducked the authorities. Skipped town with Mary Magdalene. Maybe the two of them could have made their way to Egypt, rented a humble apartment, set up a little carpentry business, had a few kids, and eventually retired contentedly in...
