Romans

Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.

I was counting on her discretion.

I was counting on her discretion.

I was counting on her discretion.

"It's a sin problem," goes the slogan, "not a gun problem." Whatever definition of sin is operative here, it isn't Paul's.

Maybe we need to be pushed in different ways than the Romans did.

There have been many Zionisms over the years. Only one has imagined an eventual end of Judaism.

It's not always what we would choose for ourselves.

It's not always what we would choose for ourselves.

On the way to the soup kitchen, I met a man with a loaf of bread.

This text is a painful confession.

Christians have long lived in denial of our deep creaturely connections.

True character is only formed over long periods of time.

Give me your tired, your poor, those you consider dogs.

Wishes are about what we want. Hope is about what God wants.

Both Elijah and Peter face a stark reality: fear.

We can be joined by our suffering, not just separated.

It's a beautiful Sunday morning, until the pastor breaks the mood.

If it's in the first verse of Romans 5, it must be important to Paul.

I would have been embarrassed, downright ashamed to be associated with gluttons, drunkards, and sinners.