Resurrection of the Lord (Year C, RCL)

What kind of faith gets you through 25 years in a refugee camp?

What do we do when we read a story where the ending is already known?

Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.

What the Bible doesn't say about hell

“If we don’t understand the Judaism of Jesus’ time, how can we understand him and his message?”

Who are these women to say such things?

The resurrection is an old, old message. But I need to be reminded.

“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”

A good joke can reveal the distance between what is and what should be.

In the Eastern church's art, Christ arises triumphantly and magnificently—but not alone.

The Magnificat rejoices in a God who acts within human history.

At grief’s mercy, Mary stays at the site of her loss.

Is Isaiah's vision of a peaceful public square a naïve hope?

Many people are bound. Some don’t even know it. The difference between being free and being bound is at the center of our Gospel text this week.

I keep a 36-inch utility shovel in my church office. I use it to dig the graves that hold the cremains of our congregation's saints.