Luke

It’s a terrible fact that we have so many opportunities to love our enemies.

Luke’s Beatitudes call us to live in the tension of a cross-shaped life.

The disciples focused on what they could control: the state of their nets.

Kenosis, solidarity, and discipleship

Kenosis, solidarity, and discipleship

Our baptismal covenant is a beginning, not an ending.

If Jesus is with the other guy, how can he be with us?

The word of God is living and active; it meets us where we are.

White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead.

White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead.

I don’t know if this is the pandemic’s end game. I do know that new things are already being born in us.

There’s a lot of a certain sort of pleasure pursued around Christmas.

When we resist the powers that oppress this world, we are baptized through fire.

Why am I so skeptical about sitting and learning at the feet of others?

Advent is also about our own coming and going, the ways we embody the reconstructive ways of the Lord.

Abortion is about real lives enmeshed in the realities of home and work and wages and debt.

My Grandma Violet was the black sheep of our family. I think of her when I pray.

My Grandma Violet was the black sheep of our family. I think of her when I pray.

My Grandma Violet was the black sheep of our family. I think of her when I pray.

Advent must respond in some consequential way to the widening uncertainty of the living of our days.