Midweek Musing April 15, 2026 We live in an age of images. Memes, reels, graphics, short videos, emojis, and captions seem to carry so much of our communication now. We scroll quickly, laugh quickly, react quickly, like/share, and move on. Ours is, as I heard one commentator state, the age of the graphic. In one sense it seems to me we moved from pictures telling stories on cave walls to hieroglyphics to papyrus scrolls to the printing press and newspaper stories and suddenly

Last Sunday, coming home from church, we were listening to NPR on satellite radio. The news mentioned Easter celebrations taking place around the world, and during the report the journalist noted that it was a day of joy for the approximately 2.5 billion people who call themselves Christians. That number really struck me. Because I am sure that scared band of eleven disciples, along with perhaps fifty or sixty other devoted followers, many of them women, could never have imag