A father takes out a newspaper advertisement for his estranged son — all is forgiven — and eight hundred young men named Paco come to the meeting place. Elliott Stearns takes Hemingway’s story, and the life behind it, into what a father actually supplies.

Pentecost in Acts 2 — tongues of fire, and the… read more

Acts 4:13-22 and verse 20 — we are not able… read more

Proverbs 1 opening the new year, on Scripture as God’s… read more

Palm Sunday in Mark 11 — the donkey, the withered… read more

A series on John 3 opens with the man rather than the verse. Elliott Stearns reads Nicodemus closely, down to a conjunction in verse one most readers miss, and traces an exchange that never returns to the terms Nicodemus arrived with.

Luke 19:28-40 and Palm Sunday as the doorway to Holy… read more

Luke 1 and the greeting between Mary and Elizabeth, with… read more

A Memorial Day service that begins with an empty chair… read more