13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

The Gospel of Mark tells the story of a precarious moment.

Maybe the Song of the Bow is an Iron Age propaganda drop. Or maybe it’s just a song.

Vida Dutton Scudder, an early 20th-century radical, points Christians to solidarity and martyrdom.

The Ghanaian theologian has long insisted that the experiences of African women are the experiences of the church.

Psalm 130 fits so many ways.

Throughout scripture, human bodies are not an obstacle to righteousness; they are its location.

We all have needs—and abundance.

When David praises Saul and Jonathan, is he acting out of expediency, faithfulness, or both?

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “dirt.”

I’ve stopped trying to climb over it or knock it down. Now I just sit there.

Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.

Jairus knows the weight of justice delayed as justice denied. But he keeps moving.

The woman's presence in a crowd is an act of civil disobedience.

Until Christians can all share the Lord’s Supper, the rift continues. But there is no denying how massively the ground has shifted.

In Mark 5, a hemorrhaging woman meets a permeable savior.

Robert Barron’s grasp of the complex development of David’s character in 2 Samuel is unsurpassed. And his references to history and literature are more than adornment.

Not everything urgent is important. The difficulty is distinguishing between the two. In ministry, people's pressing needs seldom come before us in neat, conveniently timed packages. Instead, the minister is bombarded with legitimate requests and pleas from every side.

Two people in great distress do what a third, the Gerasene demoniac, has already done: they interrupt and rearrange Jesus’ day.

Paul isn’t asking us to avoid the world. But if the form of the world is passing away, the everyday is becoming a step into promise.