I am the Door + Easter 4A, 2026 + ACL
I am the Door Easter 4A, 2026 (John 10, 1 Peter 2, Acts 2) St Paul’s Emmanuel, Santa Paula / All Santos Oxnard The Rev. Alene Campbell-Langdell A couple of weeks ago, I sat in a concert listening to the musician sharing a little of her life story prior to singing a song about belonging in community. She shared her experience of growing up in a fundamentalist church in the Memphis area, being outed as a Lesbian in college, and then being shunned by the community to teach her about love. She ended by saying that she just wished she could sing this song about belonging in a church and know it was true. If we are to understand Jesus’ words here in John 10, we have to put them back in the context in which they were said. So, let’s go back to chapter 9. You will remember that we read the story of the healing of the man born blind during Lent. After all the back and forth between the man, his parents, and the religious leaders o...