This newsletter is a little like the daily devotionals I used to read as young person, which contained brief reflections on seemingly random biblical verses or passages. It comes out less regularly than every day. And it also moves steadily through just a single book of the bible: the Gospel of Mark. But each reflection is short enough to read in five minutes or less.
It also blends theology and biblical scholarship with some more personal considerations. As I suggest in the first edition, Mark’s Gospel seems to me to be increasingly relevant in the kind of world in which we now find ourselves. But its relevance lies at a deeper level than this. Mark does more than tell us some hopeful things at a time when we might need to hear them. It is an invitation to encounter the living God. If we have eyes to see and ears to hear, the words of Mark, which Christ makes his own, will lead us into the fiery presence of the Lord. It is in this transformative encounter that we will find the hope and joy we need in dark times. I find it hard not to take this personally.
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