John 4

She doesn’t even have a name. Surely she is a questionable character if she has no name.

Water dominated the imaginations of our ancestors in faith, whose stories often called for either a canteen or galoshes.

Rethinking the woman at the well

Others have given up on them, but not God.

Jesus in conversation with three women in the Gospels

On the cross, Jesus needed actual water. No one gave him any.

Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.

From creation to Mary Magdalene, Barbara E. Reid offers convincing alternatives to sexist interpretations of scripture.

How do we wrap our minds around hunger?

No one from the outside can fully grasp the inner workings of any marriage. Even those inside sometimes find themselves lonely and strangers.

Jesus chooses a circumstance of division, then instigates community.

When you pray at LA's cathedral, you are part of humanity past, future and in the inglorious, unromanticized present.

Respectable women made their trips to the well in the morning, not at noon.

It is tempting to sit in judgment on others. Sometimes we do it in jest, as Mark Twain did when commenting on Adam. “Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.” But sometimes the serpent eats us, and then we judge in earnest.

This is not a metaphorical desert. Left alone here at high noon, Jesus could die without water.

Only one who loves you knows your deepest desires.