Second Sunday in Lent (Year B, RCL)

Fruitful ministry becomes sustainable when it is shared, person to person and generation to generation.

Lament psalms typically move to trust at some point, but reading only those verses feels strange in Lent.

What a roller coaster for the disciples: They are following the Messiah! And doing so will cost them everything.

Vida Dutton Scudder, an early 20th-century radical, points Christians to solidarity and martyrdom.

So I took a new name—as many characters in the Bible do.

Four new books about the women of Hebrew scripture

The cross we choose to bear reveals who we think Jesus is.

In this week’s readings, God’s covenant-making continues.

Peter has guts. He reproaches the very one he identifies as anointed.

It got stolen, and I got scared.

What does it mean to have a Savior?

Jesus' lesson in large-hearted theology

Struggling with whether to abandon my Korean name made me think about the queerness in all of our identities.

Sometimes it seems that the vine grower has prepared the vineyard and gone off to a remote island where things are warmer and nicer.

We can ignore the Satan stuff, or we can address it.

You've got to feel bad for Peter.

Are the people of 21st-century Israel the chosen ones of Genesis to whom Yahweh promised the land in eternal covenant? Walter Brueggemann gives a nuanced answer.

Can "Abrahamic" replace "Judeo-Christian"? And without sacrificing the integrity of three different traditions?