Do you notice how the main characters in these after-Easter appearances of Jesus – the locked room and the road to Emmaus – are guys? In the U.S., today is Mother’s Day as well as the Third Sunday of Easter. No doubt.
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| Earl the Twirl - courtesy UDM Athletics |
ALMA MATER
In this morning’s Detroit Free Press is a story that warms my University of Detroit Mercy heart. It’s on the Sports Page. It’s a Mother’s Day story – about a guy. “Earl the Twirl”, we called him back in U of D’s Calihan Hall, this 6’ 9” basketball transfer who ran with his thumbs up all the time, most noticeably when he was loping across the court after scoring, like he was giving himself a thumbs-up, and maybe us, the cheering throng, too. We guys saw him as points and rebounds, our hope to get back to the NCAA tournament after the Dick Vitale/Long/Duerod/Tyler years that gave our struggling urban university some time in the spotlight. His mom saw him as a college student. And she believed in him.
In this morning’s Detroit Free Press is a story that warms my University of Detroit Mercy heart. It’s on the Sports Page. It’s a Mother’s Day story – about a guy. “Earl the Twirl”, we called him back in U of D’s Calihan Hall, this 6’ 9” basketball transfer who ran with his thumbs up all the time, most noticeably when he was loping across the court after scoring, like he was giving himself a thumbs-up, and maybe us, the cheering throng, too. We guys saw him as points and rebounds, our hope to get back to the NCAA tournament after the Dick Vitale/Long/Duerod/Tyler years that gave our struggling urban university some time in the spotlight. His mom saw him as a college student. And she believed in him.
I think that the reason Jesus kept appearing to guys after that first Easter morning was that
