Epiphany is not only about seeing the light — it is about what we do when it appears. In Matthew’s Gospel, the same revelation produces radically different responses: fear that clings to power, hesitation that preserves the status quo, and worship that dares to change direction. This reflection explores Epiphany as a moment of reorientation — personal, political, and spiritual — asking what it might mean, in a fractured world, to go home by another road.

In the Gospel of Mark 1:35-38, Jesus withdraws to a palace of solitude to pray.  This follows a night of healing Simon’s mother-in-law...