Fourth Sunday in Lent (Year C, RCL)
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Contrition in its many forms (Psalm 32; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)
The prodigal’s return looks more like a strategy than a wholehearted conversion.
March 30, Lent 4c (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)
There is no resolution to the prodigal son story, only the resonance of the father’s words.
Moments in the middle (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)
What comes in between being lost and being found?
March 27, Lent 4C (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)
Sometimes anger is a window into what needs to be mended and healed.
Knowing and preaching the Jewish Jesus
“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”
Taking the Bible seriously means reading it figurally
What scripture means is not reducible to what it once meant.
Everybody counts. Even the Lollards.
A counting book that retells Jesus’ parables and a Reformation-themed alphabet book are among my favorite new children’s books.
What made early Christians a peculiar people?
“One second-century pagan critic of Christianity was willing to tolerate everything else about Christians if they would only worship the gods.”
A Jesus who embodies his own characters
Two refreshing new books place the storyteller within the story he tells.
Enough about the other brother
I often worry that churches are too full of people who are not disappointments.
March 6, Fourth Sunday in Lent: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
It has become almost a cliché for preachers to focus on the older brother of the Prodigal Son. Too often, not even our churches let us be the fallen brother who desperately wants to come home.
All creatures
People do not float through life in the bubble that is their skin. We are grounded, dependent beings that live through the lives and deaths of others.