Category Archives: Geoff Wood Blog

A Tale of Two Mountains             Back in 1958, when I was fit enough to climb to the top of an Egyptian pyramid, I traveled with a group of biblical scholars to visit the ancient sites of the Middle East.  … Continue reading →

Verbosity             In the 1970 film Tora, Tora, Tora – dramatizing the December 7th, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and events leading up to it – alerts had been received from Washington of something impending but when and where remained … Continue reading →

Jenny kiss’d me when we met, / Jumping from the chair she sat in; / Time, you thief, who love to get / Sweets into your list, put that in! / Say I’m weary, say I’m sad, / Say that … Continue reading →

I heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet Sometimes little things go unnoticed in the readings for our Sunday liturgies.  For instance, despite their focus upon the marvel of the resurrection, I can’t help but reflect upon … Continue reading →

Good Friday Often in looking for some symptom that might supply us with a key to what’s wrong with our world, we survey the larger tendencies of human nature – greed, selfishness, distrust, suspicion, quickness to take offense, to strike … Continue reading →

“Miss.” – “Yes, sir, how can I help you?” – “I think the elevator has stopped.” Eight years ago I was trapped in an elevator for an hour and a half.  I was in Eureka to present a class to … Continue reading →

Truth lies at the bottom of a deep well.  (An old saying) As a child, they could not keep me from wells.  So begins a poem by  the late Irish poet Seamus Heaney.  I loved the dark drop, the trapped … Continue reading →

They saw no one but Jesus One way to relate to today’s Gospel passage depicting the transfiguration of Jesus upon a mountain top is first to focus on the closing words of the episode: raising their eyes (or looking around) … Continue reading →

“The devil made me do it” – Flip Wilson in the role of Geraldine Hollywood produces horror films in which grotesque demons terrorize individuals and whole communities, until the demons disappear and the sun comes out again and The End … Continue reading →

Christ has set us free! Last Sunday during our parish session on the Lectionary Readings for the month of February, mention of the jail breaks in the New Testament came up.  For instance, shortly after the first Pentecost Peter was … Continue reading →