Bride and Bridegroom – Linda Vogt Turner

Epiphany XV: Vinegar and Salt

A red-haired woman holding a small almond branch stands face to face with a Black man, surrounded by leafy fig trees, with a wooden cross between them.

Why is Jesus offered vinegar?

Mockery — or proposal?

Boaz once invited Ruth to dip her bread in vinegar.

At the Cross, that gesture repeats — in Jesus’ final single breath, a covenant is preserved.

Epiphany XIII: Living Water Proclaims

A white-haired elderly man holding a wine glass looks toward a black man with his hand at the waist of a red-haired woman, who points and looks up toward the black man.

From place to place, Jesus proclaimed what had been kept sacred—
by Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.
Not all who heard were ready to receive what had been kept hidden.
But those with ears to hear
went—and began to tell.

Epiphany V: Disturbance on Solomon’s Porch

On a stone porch, a Black man in saffron robes sits beside an older white man with a beard, who holds a leafless branch.

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

A single red rose blooming in deep snow.

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

Shaded stone porch with columns forming a public walkway.

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.

Who Is My Neighbour? Lessons from the Ditch

A red-haired woman pours water into a glass as her reflection appears in the oval mirror behind her, with a rooster perched above.

The Samaritan Parable, a mirror. The question “Who is my neighbour?” strikes us like a rock as we ponder the words of Micah 6:8.

The Bent Woman

Fishnet shawl draped on a cross with crown of thorns on black rock, symbolizing the Bride breaking free and anchored in hope.

The Bent Woman — the Bride breaking free, standing upright in hope, Christ’s mystery revealed in a prime number pair.
Part of Linda Vogt Turner’s blog series beginning with Priming the Pump and continuing through The Petition of the Bridegroom, What Defines You, and now The Bent Woman.

What Defines You?

AI-generated portrait of a red-haired woman with glasses, looking thoughtful, as if pondering the question: Does Christ define us?

What defines us? Is it the names we are given, the work we do, the loves we cherish, the faith we live — or even the last breath we take? In this reflection, Linda Vogt Turner weaves memory, scripture, and the witness of her late husband Gordon and her beloved fiancé Don to show how Christ’s covenant love — fragile yet enduring — defines us still, honouring both mother and father and drawing us into a greater promise.