3rd Sunday After Easter – Street Psalms

The Courage to Disappear

By Scott Dewey | April 21, 2023 |

This week’s gospel story depicts two people walking down a road with a stranger who joins them. So happens the stranger is famous, but they don’t recognize him. Like the airplane story, it’s a setup for comedy, but it’s no time for laughter. All three are in the aftermath of trauma, walking away from the scene of public and personal horrors. Primary trauma, suffered directly. Secondary trauma, witnessed and absorbed.

Do you love me?

By Jenna Smith | April 29, 2022 |

One of my theology professors, Olivier Bauer, enjoyed playing with this question. His students would automatically answer, “Jesus’ Last Supper was in the upper room on the evening of his arrest when he introduced Holy Communion”, or something to that effect.

Peace Be With you

By Lina Thompson | April 16, 2021 |

But if I’m honest, I am still wondering – what are the actual, tangible things that make for peace? This seems like the million dollar question for the Church to ponder … especially as ones who are proclaiming this peace.

The Verbness of Easter

By Kris Rocke | May 1, 2020 |

In our Lenten journey we are nearing the cross, the place where Jesus will make visible that to which we are blind and change the way we see forever. We will see the excluded one give birth to a new kind of community that is scapegoat free.

Grace in Galilee

By Joel Van Dyke | May 3, 2019 |

The first ever encounter between Jesus and Peter happened on these same shores where Peter had grown up. Now, in this final chapter of the Gospel of John, the last encounter on earth between Jesus and Peter occurs once again at the same place…

Open Our Eyes to the Stranger

By Kris Rocke | April 27, 2017 |

Here at Street Psalms, our most transformative experiences have happened while walking the streets with urban leaders (“on the road”) and fellowship around a meal (“breaking of the bread”). This week’s lectionary text highlights both the road and the table as gateways to Gospel sight.

Dis-appointment?

By Ken Sikes | April 8, 2016 |

Have you recently been disappointed by someone, or have you been the source of their disappointment? In a week’s time, those following Jesus went from a deep experience of the…

Intimacy

By Scott Dewey | April 17, 2015 |

Making eye contact with Jesus.