Debbie Blue

This passage has all the elements of a scary story. Jesus and the disciples get into a boat and a horrible storm comes up....

When you have long hair and perfumed oil and kissing feet and a sinful woman in the same pericope, it’s hard not to think of sex....

It’s clear that Luke’s desire is to write an “orderly account”; he has an agenda, is out to prove something, and his writing occasionally seems a bit contrived and predictable....

Wisdom seems like something you find after many years, something elusive, like an old Indian in a cave in the desert....

The story of the Tower of Babel seems to have such enduring and diverse cultural resonance that when it shows up in the lectionary, I have a hard time leaving it alone.