Today is the end of the season of Epiphany, which began the first Sunday in January. Throughout the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany seasons we have been celebrating ways in which God’s glory has been manifested in the life of Jesus. If these ways were easy to understand by early Christians, Paul would not have had to write all those letters.

This is Transfiguration Sunday and, once again, we are presented with another experience in the life of Jesus that appears to be outside our frame of reference. One of the amazing stories in the New Testament is that account of the Transfiguration. Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him and led them up a high mountain. His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. And there appeared Elijah and Moses, the two…