Poor Thomas. Thomas the Twin. Doubting Thomas. It seems we never remember poor Thomas except for what he isn’t—he isn’t his brother and he isn’t faithful, he doesn’t believe. But Thomas is—in his own right—the first and greatest of believers. And what he comes to believe is still astonishing. The disciples are huddled in fear …
Monthly Archives: April 1998
Sunday Week 1 of Easter
I live in Berkeley, just north of the Cal campus, just across from a fraternity house, the band fraternity in fact. And whatever the reputation that such places might have this house is a decent one, pretty quiet, pretty considerate. And as part of that consideration there was a knock at the door last Wednesday …