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Upside Down and Backwards
by Rebecca Lynne Fullan In looking at this week’s readings, I feel both comfortable and uncomfortable, familiar and unfamiliar. The readings are full of reversals, and they don’t just slip them in...
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Waiting, with Ladybugs
by Rebecca Lynne Fullan I’m waiting. This winter, I submitted nine PhD applications. Six schools have said no. The other three—I’m waiting. Every day I go through a little ritual of nerves. I make a...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Godly
by Rebecca Lynne Fullan Good Friday seems to be about stripping things bare—the altar and the church are bare. Isn’t it something to see the priests flat out on the ground, the quiet sounds of their...
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Dust in the Wind
by Rebecca Lynne Fullan I respond to this week’s readings with passionate ambivalence. Ambivalence, I sometimes tell my students, is when you feel so strongly about both sides that you look like you...
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Speaking of Silence
By Rebecca Lynne Fullan When I arrived at Harvard Divinity School in the fall of ’06, there was a lot of buzz about the documentary Into Great Silence, which followed the lives of Carthusian monks in...
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Great Love and Much Forgiveness
By Rebecca Fullan Forgiveness. This week’s readings are all laced through with forgiveness, and the paradoxical journey people take toward it, and the overwhelming godly grace inherent in it. I have...
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Feigning the Sacraments, Seeking the Treasure
by Rebecca Lynne Fullan When I saw Sodom and Gomorrah peeking at me from the very top of today’s readings, a cranky grumpy feeling glowered back from inside. I had made my way to these readings from...
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The Glow, The Dance, The Dark of the Sea
by Rebecca Lynne Fullan Sometimes my life gets humid. The air all full and heavy, and I can’t even feel the water that’s weighing it down, but I know it’s there, making it hard to push through. About a...
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Walking Humbly
By Rebecca Lynne Fullan Humility. This week’s readings come praising and encouraging it—but what is it? Is it taking the last place because you really want the first? Is it not asking questions when...
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Lost & Found
By Rebecca Lynne Fullan I love this week’s readings. They are graceful and abundant, and cause me to rethink assumptions. Look at Paul, in the second reading, for example. Paul gets a lot of flack...
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