Category Archives: Geoff Wood Blog

If a parable doesn’t make you pause and think, you have not read it carefully.                           In today’s parable, when the farm hands ask the owner of a wheat field that has also been sown … Continue reading →

The Extravagant God             My uncle Frankie (on my mother’s side) was a delightful but not too dependable young man.  My father was a sheet metal man and roofer who felt that these were legitimate jobs – not like being … Continue reading →

Jesus, the Host,  not in the sense of the wafer but as the one who presides at the table.  There’s nothing like a dinner party to draw people together.  After a glass of wine the laughter begins amid intense conversation … Continue reading →

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.             The Hudson River has been called the American Rhine because of the many castles built along its shores (from 1870 to the early 20th century) when multi-millionaires had no inhibition showing off … Continue reading →

The Essence of God             In his letter to the Christians of Corinth 2000 years ago, St. Paul had to manage all sorts of issues ranging from people favoring this preacher or that, Paul or Apollos . . . reducing … Continue reading →

Made in the image of God, we are called to play out the image of   God in our lives.          How far removed our society seems to be from our Judeo-Christian heritage. Even Judeo-Christians, so secularized by our culture, seem … Continue reading →

David and Orpheus             About one Sunday a month (over many years) I have been invited to give a homily during an interdenominational chapel service held at Spring Lake Village in Santa Rosa.  By the way, the chapel is liturgically … Continue reading →

“How can we know the way?”             Often in classrooms when the students are asked after a presentation “Are there any questions?” silence follows.  So you can conclude that many were not listening to the presentation or the presentation was … Continue reading →

I am the Good Shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me.             I came across a fellow named Shane the other day and suggested he was born in the early 1950’s.  Why?  Because that classic western film named … Continue reading →

The Roman Road One of my favorite stories in Kenneth Grahame’s 1895 classic The Golden Age  (stories told from the vantage point of a pre-adolescent sibling about his experiences growing up in rural England) is called “The Roman Road”.  The … Continue reading →