“Baptism tells us who we are and who we are becoming,” wrote John the Deacon 1,500 years ago. For most people, including many church members, the idea that identity is based on Baptism is a new one. We have so many way of determining our identity — in fact, we have many identities. Gender, nationality,…

Early in the morning the women disciples of Jesus are on their way to the tomb when suddenly they realize they are going to encounter what we moderns might call a technical difficulty. Who will roll away the stone? It’s a big stone, it’s a big problem. But they continue on anyway. Rocks may be…