Category: Released Doves

  • Breakfast by the Sea

    The Architecture of Reinstatement There is a profound reason why the ultimate work of Jesus didn’t conclude in an empty tomb, but on a shoreline. For a long time, the modern gospel text has been used to police our behavior and stir up panic about the future. We are conditioned to think of God as…

  • The Casual Companion

    Walking the Road to Emmaus We often assume that when God reveals Himself, it must be accompanied by blinding light, booming thunder, or overwhelming terror. We have been conditioned by a fear-driven narrative to think that the Creator of the universe only breaks into our world to police our behavior or hand down an ultimate…

  • The Mistaken Gardener

    The Grand Return to the Soil There are moments in the biblical narrative where a seemingly minor detail carries the structural weight of the entire universe. One of those moments happens in the early dawn hours outside an empty tomb (John 20). Mary Magdalene stands weeping in the morning mist, her heart completely shattered by…