Epiphany XII: Bethesda — Where the Threads Are Braided
Lying there was one who had been unable to walk freely for thirty-eight years.
But how did Jesus know this?
Epiphany XI: Jesus Talk — At the Well: The Source
A Samaritan and a Jew speak — and those far off think they see what is taking place. They are speaking at a sacred well — at Noon — the sixth hour.
Epiphany X: Jesus Talk — in the Dark
A night conversation in John’s Gospel raises a question readers seldom ask: Who is the Teacher of Israel — and what is he doing speaking with Jesus in the moonlight?
Epiphany IX: The Bridegroom Called Aside — Set Apart
At Cana, the master of the banquet tastes the wine and the bridegroom is called aside. This ninth Epiphany reflection pauses to notice that phrase — and what it reveals in Lent.
Epiphany VIII: The Anointing
In Bethany, Simon judges the Teacher — and the Teacher answers with a parable. As Nathan once confronted David, Simon confronts the Teacher of Israel, revealing the need for grace.
But where is Grace — who forgives her sister for anointing her Lord’s feet?
Epiphany VII: The Sapphire Wall
Veiling Grace and Glory, judgment follows. Epiphany VII reveals how concealment, the price of leadership, and the sapphire mystery hide Truth and pave the way.
Epiphany VI: The Crux
The crippled one in Acts is over forty — a detail that amazes. Human life forms in 39–40 weeks. How much longer, then, for divine life: forty years, and more, before the newborn, crippled from birth, walks — and leaps as a gazelle, taking Peter’s hand.
Epiphany V: Disturbance on Solomon’s Porch
At Solomon’s Porch, an unexpected bloom appears on a leafless branch — the restoration of one long crippled. How can this be? And how can such a fragile miracle be protected without being silenced?
Epiphany IV: Peter’s Speech
At Solomon’s Colonnade, an unexpected bloom appears — the restoration of one long crippled. Peter makes clear this did not happen by his power or John’s alone, but through an ancient love, wounded yet never destroyed.
Epiphany III: At Solomon’s Porch
At Solomon’s Porch, what many had long waited and hoped for is revealed in public: Christ, the Bride belonging to the Bridegroom. Long crippled by male-centred worship and male grammar, this epiphany restores not only the Bride, but the Bridegroom — and all who bear witness, from the Forerunner onward.
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