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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.
No one is in charge of their own birth (John 3:1-17)
Nicodemus’s problem is the power of evil, and he can’t find his own way out of it.
Lonely pruning (John 15:1-8; 1 John 4:7-21; Psalm 22:25-31)
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.
Showing the world our wounds (Acts 4:32-35; John 20:19-31)
Some people say they don’t identify as Christian because of what they see, or don’t see, in the church.
Peter’s denial and our judgment (John 18:1-19:42)
Peter doesn’t want to suffer. Who does?
Peter’s denial and our judgment (John 18:1-19:42)
Peter doesn’t want to suffer. Who does?
A servant-leader’s strength (John 13:1-17, 31b-35)
The enduring significance of Jesus’ act in John 13 turns on the little preposition to.
Marielle Franco and the crucifixion of love
The Brazilian activist was killed by the same world that killed Jesus—a world that can’t bear love.
Marielle Franco and the crucifixion of love
The Brazilian activist was killed by the same world that killed Jesus—a world that can’t bear love.