Sunday is the Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany.  Assigned scriptures for this liturgical season strive to help us have an “epiphany” (see the light) of God’s love.  It also seeks to help us to see the light of hope in troubling and challenging situations.    We see this in the assigned Gospel text for...

Sunday is the Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany. One way, Merriman Webster defines “an epiphany,” is “an illuminating discovery, a realization, or disclosure.” One illuminating discovery I made in studying the assigned lectionary texts for this Sunday was the realization that each, Micah 6 and Matthew 5, disclosed a list....

This is Sunday is the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. Today when we think of an Epiphany, it’s probably not about “The Epiphany” when Christ is revealed to the Magi. Rather we’re probably thinking about “an epiphany as a sudden or illuminating discovery or realization. I had that kind of...