Luke

The kings in the Bible feel pretty familiar.

What men have placed a premium on, God has not.

Talking about God in the face of wounds that won’t go away

Talking about God in the face of wounds that won’t go away

Talking about God in the face of wounds that won’t go away

Jesus' sermon in Luke 6 is first and foremost about the people gathered.

The unfaithful shepherd sniffs out and stirs up fear, fragmenting communities.

This Reformation Day, I'm preaching the Gospel text from the lectionary.

Jesus’ hearers are well-acquainted with calamity and crisis.

After our time in the pediatric cardiac ICU, we brought home a healthy baby. Others made funeral plans.

This is a troubling parable.

Resurrection is where God is—across generations, across circumstances.

Jesus mourns a human existence unconcerned with the needs of the whole.

Jesus mourns a human existence unconcerned with the needs of the whole.

Jesus' characters aren't nuanced; they're all elbows and ankles.

Injustice comes with so many alibis and aliases.
 

Jesus has a zeal against the human willingness to turn wealth into an idol.

Maybe the lepers know that Jesus likes being in the borderland.