Palm/Passion Sunday (Year 4, NL)

Peter doesn’t want to suffer. Who does?

The Brazilian activist was killed by the same world that killed Jesus—a world that can’t bear love.

A worshiper can go a long time without any idea of who Melchizedek is and what it means to be a priest according to his order.

Who were the people who watched Jesus' crucifixion?

The crucified Jesus in John's Gospel is cosmic—and magnetic.

They stand witness, watching in agony at his agony. 

John 18:1–19:42

Small deceptions work like a narcotic, making us feel nicely respectable. Especially in church.

The Dakota Access pipeline poses a threat to indigenous people. Their resistance poses tough questions for all of us.

There are many reasons to deny Jesus, and we all have one. 

The Gospel of John uses the word "truth" more than any other book in the Bible and way more than the other Gospels combined. Not only that, but many of the most-quoted verses in John, the ones that have shaped Christian discourse over the centuries, have been concerned with the question of truth.

The callousness of Pontius Pilate was legendary: if you could choose your judge, you did not want him. Jesus cannot choose.

Christians didn’t baptize Aldo Leopold’s land ethic after the fact. They got there years before his work.

I’ve only seen three dead bodies in my life. The first was when I was 12 years old and my grandfather died at age 69. It was the first time I ever saw my father cry. At the funeral home, my sister was brave enough to reach out and touch my grandfather’s hand as it rested on his torso. Back in our seats, I asked her what his skin felt like. “Plastic,” she said.