It was an unusually cold fall day when I woke hours before sunrise. Wide awake, I made coffee and slipped out into the darkness. The predawn sky swirled with a slow moving masterpiece of grey clouds that obscured the last stars and hinted of rain. I walked down the farm lane, across frosty fields, and […]
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Mark tells no back stories: no theological images like John, no genealogy like Matthew, and no birth narrative like Luke. Mark begins with John the Baptist. Jesus was about 30 years old, the age when many men got married, when he decided to travel to the Judean wilderness to hear John the Baptist preach. John […]
