However, John provides one last well-placed image ... Like Adam, God causes a deep sleep to fall upon Jesus the Second Adam, the deepest sleep possible—death itself. Motionless, his gaping ...

Awakened from his sleep, Jesus asked, “Why are you afraid ... dependent upon others and upon God for our existence and our well-being. We are not the masters of our fate.

After all this time I thought I knew Jesus really well. Then just last week—preparing to preach ... never hummed a refrain or sang himself to sleep. After all these years, this is like learning that ...

This Sunday’s Gospel passage, recounting Jesus’ calming of the sea, evokes three biblical motifs: storms, the terror of sailors at sea and the theme of sleep ...