Tag: John Caputo

  • Digging Up the Roof: The Kingdom Moment and the Paralytic in Mark 2:1-12

    This is the sermon I gave this past Sunday on Mark’s story about Jesus and the paralytic. “When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. So many gathered around that there was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door; and he was…

  • Plan B: The Church (John Caputo)

    In preparing for a sermon the other day I came across one of my favorite quotes from John Caputo’s book, “What Would Jesus Deconstruct?” (see also here): “The name of ‘Jesus’ is too often a mirror in which we behold our own image, and it has always been easy to spot the sliver in the…