Coming out is an important theme in the Gospel of Mark. If Immanuel can serve as book ends for Matthew (since this is the promise both in chapter 1 and chapter 28), coming out frames Mark (in chapter 1 and 16).
The women at the end of Mark expected Jesus to be inside a box, a tomb, but he was not. He came out. Jesus is never, ever, where we want him to be.
In our lectionary reading, the disciples and Simon Peter expected Jesus to be inside a box, Peter's house in Capernaum. But Jesus was not. He came out. Jesus is never, ever, where we want him to be.
He always goes back to Galilee where we don't want him to be. Among the poor, among sinners, among outcasts and lepers and the demon-possessed. And he is there. Right now.
Waiting for us.
Reading the Bible inside a Jeepney: Celebrating Colonized and Occupied Peoples' capacity to beat swords into ploughshares; to transform weapons of mass destruction into instruments of mass celebration; mortar shells into church bells, teargas canisters to flowerpots; rifle barrels into flutes; U.S. Military Army Jeeps into Filipino Mass Transport Jeepneys.
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