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Start over at the beginning (Easter Day B) (Mark 16:1-8)
Mark's Gospel and “There's a Hole in the Bucket”
Leave it with me
He was moving away, the stranger said, and he wanted to leave a box in my care.
Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan on food justice and Jesus
“Jesus was preaching to people who were in the middle of the worst farming and fishing crisis yet.”
The power of a long Gospel narrative (Good Friday) (John 18:1-19:42)
Read the Passion in John‘s Gospel. All of it.
How fighting for human rights can lead to idolatry
Rights are good, argues theological ethicist Nigel Biggar, but they are not the only good things.
Who was Henrietta Mears?
A new biography of the woman who shaped the men who shaped modern evangelicalism
April 25, Easter 4B (John 10:11-18)
When I was newly pregnant with my daughter, I thought of myself as the hired hand, her temporary guardian.
Episode 89: Skyfall
As Easter Sunday approaches, Matt and Adam talk about violence, resurrection, and the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall.
Christian clergy are being kidnapped and killed in Nigeria
From farms to churches, no place feels safe.
Proclaiming the Lord's humanity (Maundy Thursday) (1 Corinthians 11:23-36)
Paul offers a meantime ethic, a witness of the death Jesus still endures until death disappears in his return.
A body in pain navigates the world
Poet Molly McCully Brown’s memoir of life with cerebral palsy
Episode 3: Theologian Miguel De La Torre, author of Decolonizing Christianity
A conversation with pastor and theologian Miguel De La Torre about White Christianity, Christian nationalism, women of color, and more
Bodies at worship (Palm/Passion B) (Philippians 2:5-11)
Every knee shall bow, even our knees.