Luke

The traditional annunciation story bothers me even more than the word handmaid.

I probably shouldn’t treat my own son like he’s the Messiah. Imagine the pressure.

I probably shouldn’t treat my own son like he’s the Messiah. Imagine the pressure.

I probably shouldn’t treat my own son like he’s the Messiah. Imagine the pressure.

I probably shouldn’t treat my own son like he’s the Messiah. Imagine the pressure.

I probably shouldn’t treat my own son like he’s the Messiah. Imagine the pressure.

I probably shouldn’t treat my own son like he’s the Messiah. Imagine the pressure.

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

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

His followers realized there was no quick exit from the discomfort of his words.

His followers realized there was no quick exit from the discomfort of his words.

The dams on the Klamath River are coming down. Their removal reflects a very different theology than their construction.

The dams on the Klamath River are coming down. Their removal reflects a very different theology than their construction.

“If John’s christological confessor is also the first person the risen Jesus appears to,” says biblical scholar Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, “that could make her a competitor to Peter’s authority.”

Surely God isn’t a narcissist who demands our attention.

When the widow in Luke 7 sees her son revived, she isn’t thinking about biology.

Stanley Hauerwas’s The Peaceable Kingdom at 40

Having cats did not prepare our family for chickens.

For Jesus, the inverse of scarcity isn’t abundance—it’s accumulation.