… for we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.” — Acts 4:20. St. Peter’s powerful declaration in Acts 4:20, “…for we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard,” touches the heart when we consider its context. Peter and John, fresh from healing a lifelong cripple and…
Breakfast For All
Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” — John 21:12a. When I stumbled upon today’s verse, I did a double-take worthy of a cartoon character. “Wait a minute,” I thought, “How did this gem slip past me all these years?” The sheer, unadulterated comfort of this simple verse. Here’s the Son of God, fresh from his…
Eyes Wide Open
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. — Luke 24:31. This simple verse, “Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him” (Luke 24:31), encapsulates the pivotal point in the story of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, and serves as a powerful lens through which we can examine our own…
Thank You
The Hubbell Pew! Twenty years online – that’s practically ancient in internet years! We’ve been like that comfy, slightly dusty armchair in the corner of the web, always there, especially when folks are giving up chocolate and trying to be better humans during Lent. And boy, oh boy, this year the digital mailbag overflowed with…
Fences/Walls
The familiar proverb, “Good fences make good neighbors,” gains a nuanced perspective when viewed through Robert Frost’s opening line in “Mending Wall”: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” While many interpret Frost’s poem through the lens of nationalism and borders, or the election of a U.S. President who pledged to build a “big…