Good Friday (Year 2, NL)
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What should churches do about the treatment of “the Jews” in John?
“Each of the typical approaches has problems. The best solution would be to change the lectionary.”
April 10, Good Friday (Psalm 22; John 18:1–19:42)
Things Pilate cannot touch: creative life, confounding power
June 19, 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Psalm 22:19-28; Luke 8:26-39
Many people are bound. Some don’t even know it. The difference between being free and being bound is at the center of our Gospel text this week.
Love in the time of evil
It's 2016 and the problem of evil is still unsolved. It's found a megaphone in Stephen Fry, who offers more rhetorical power than originality.
New life from crisis
The decline of mainline Protestantism is clear. What's less clear is what the church should do about it.
October 11, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Psalm 22:1-15
As a second-generation Korean American, it is hard to identify stories from my past that can serve as reservoirs of understanding for my life now. “In you our ancestors trusted,” I could proclaim from those stories, “and you delivered them.”
Wrestling with God: Poet and editor Kimberly Johnson
"Poetry invites you to have an experience. It doesn't want you to drift away into inattention. It wants to grab you."
Necessary songs: The case for singing the entire Psalter
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, my dad couldn't sing national songs. The Nazis saw the church's Psalter, however, as innocuous. Little did they know.