Jesus chooses Peter to be the leader of the Apostles because he finds the Spirit in him. Peter is in many ways an unlikely candidate because of his volatile personality and lack of conviction in a ...
Jesus chooses Peter to lead the Apostles because he sees that his Abba has already chosen to reveal to him what no human insight could grasp. Peter somehow perceives that this man Jesus standing in ...
Palm Sunday just passed and Easter is upon us. We know the scriptural accounts. We've heard them many times. But this year, we might look for something more — the rest of the story. When Jesus first ...
A Saint (Mark?) Reading, a painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa 1470 (Wikimedia Commons). Why does Jesus rebuke Peter, admonishing him to “Get behind me, Satan”?