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Women of the Bible say #MeToo
Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.
August 12, Ordinary 19B (John 6:35, 41-51)
People must have gasped when Jesus opened his mouth and said 'I am.'
Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere), by Bronzino
Art selection and commentary by Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons
August 5, Ordinary 18B (John 6:24-35)
I have an enduring memory of bread I ate when I was four. Jesus' bread also abides.
July 29, Ordinary 17B (John 6:1-21)
At that deserted spot on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus could've used a grocery store.
A hospital chaplain's double vision
I routinely saw patients who were racist, sexist, demanding, and cruel. They were also afraid, exhausted, in pain, and helpless.
Church is the perfect place to cry
We embrace uninitiated visitors, rowdy children, and blue jeans. Why not tears?
Church is the perfect place to cry
We embrace uninitiated visitors, rowdy children, and blue jeans. Why not tears?
Learning costly resistance from Bonhoeffer
Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.
Learning costly resistance from Bonhoeffer
Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.
Nicodemus’s problem is the power of evil, and he can’t find his own way out of it.
Sometimes it seems that the vine grower has prepared the vineyard and gone off to a remote island where things are warmer and nicer.
May 27, Trinity Sunday (John 3:1-17)
John 3:16 is about crisis, but not the crisis of God brooding in heaven waiting on us to make a choice.
May 27, Trinity Sunday (John 3:1-17)
John 3:16 is about crisis, but not the crisis of God brooding in heaven waiting on us to make a choice.
May 13, Easter 7B (John 17:6-19)
Christian theology is a love story.
May 13, Easter 7B (John 17:6-19)
Christian theology is a love story.
May 6, Easter 6B (John 15:9-17)
Sometimes the life of abundant love is lonely.
April 29, Easter 5B (Acts 8:26-40; 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8)
We are divided. We do not abide each other well.
Some people say they don’t identify as Christian because of what they see, or don’t see, in the church.
by Diane Roth