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Stories even better than Garrison Keillor's
It's Advent, and accusations against prominent men are shaking things up like a highway construction project in the wilderness.
January 7, Baptism of the Lord (Mark 1:4-11)
Each January the lectionary invites us to remember the invisible network of faith.
by Kat Banakis
I enjoy the tomatoes I grow, but they aren't really mine.
by Stacy Swain
November 5, All Saints A (Matthew 5:1-12)
Poverty of spirit, like any kind of poverty, is unenviable but survivable.
October 29, Ordinary 30A (Matthew 22:34-46)
"Love God, love neighbor." Sounds simple.
200 years that shaped Judaism, Jesus, and all that followed
The religious world we know was formed between 250 and 50 B.C.E.
It's a pithy proverb, but it doesn't capture Jesus' story.
October 22, Ordinary 29A (Matthew 22:15-22)
It's important to note what Jesus does not say about the Roman coin.
by Debie Thomas
October 15, Ordinary 28A (Matthew 22:1-14; Isaiah 25:1-9)
The parable of the wedding banquet is a horror story.
by Debie Thomas
Christ’s love binds up our broken hearts and broken ways.
by Amy Ziettlow
October 8, Ordinary 27A (Philippians 3:4b-14; Matthew 21:33-46)
The Apostle Paul shows the struggle to transcend the architecture of ego.
by Stacy Swain
In Matthew 16, I see a particular classical ballet step.
by Amy Ziettlow
October 1, Ordinary 26A (Matthew 21:23-32)
Love has come into the world and is walking even now.
by Stacy Swain
September 24, Ordinary 25A (Philippians 1:21–30; Matthew 20:1–16)
The work of advancing the kingdom doesn't translate into fair compensation as we understand it.
by Chris Dorsey
September 17, Ordinary 24A (Matthew 18:21–35)
The failure to forgive disrupts, distorts, and degrades community.
by Chris Dorsey
September 10, Ordinary 23A (Matt. 18:15–20)
At a #decolonizeLutheranism forum, I thought of Matthew 18.
by Amy Ziettlow
What ascetics have taught me about divine light
In the eastern tradition, theosis—union with God—is the goal of the Christian life.
August 27, Ordinary 21A (Matthew 16:13-20)
Not everyone knows who Jesus is. Do his disciples?