Transfiguration of the Lord (Year 1, NL)

As I face unexpected early retirement, I tell myself that the answer is not yet known.

What is Jesus’ vocation among us in the time of No Kings?

A new beginning was dawning. Would I lean in and listen?

Sometimes it’s hard for us to remember who we are.

How did these psalms about enemies feel in 1940? How do they feel today?

Clouds evoke the sublime. What about the cloud that stores our data and mediates its flow?

What Peter, James, and John see on the mountain cannot be neatly packaged for resale.

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

It’s hard to let go of what we once had.

Following Jesus means the human things and the divine things will overlap.

God’s presence transfigures here, now, in the familiar.

Craig Detweiler draws on art history, psychology, and religion to argue that staring at ourselves can be an act of faith.

In Matthew 16, I see a particular classical ballet step.

In the eastern tradition, theosis—union with God—is the goal of the Christian life.

Through Christ, God dances.

There is no "on the mountain" and "off the mountain."

Matthew 17:1–9

Let’s build shrines, Peter says. He doesn’t know how to respond to a mystical mountaintop experience, and he’s afraid.