12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, RCL)
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The emotion standing in the way of peace
Anger can be both healthy and helpful. Rage offers only destruction.
June 25, Ordinary 12A (Romans 6:1b–11)
False security is a lovely, loathsome thing.
A new lectionary that centers women
“If the gospel isn’t good news to the women in the passage, is it still good news?”
Maybe this really is a time of divine judgment
Amid pandemic and protest, will we turn to each other and live?
United in death? (12A; Romans 6:1b-11)
Romans 6:3 is strange. A lot of pastors have it memorized.
June 21, Ordinary 12A (Matthew 10:24–39)
Jesus keeps saying, “Do not be afraid.” But there’s so much to be afraid of.
When a father and husband walked out, grace called him home
I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.
When hope gives up on magical results
Since my son’s accident, everything I understand about hope has changed.
We should celebrate the “death day” of our baptism each year
Baptism is about dying with Christ. Why don't more churches talk about this?
Learning costly resistance from Bonhoeffer
Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.
The quiet Christian witness of A Rocha Canada
The evangelical group teaches farming, provides hospitality to newly arrived refugees, and watches the local salmon.
Jacob and the angel, as told by the angel
I'm authorized to open seals, drive the chariot of fire, and pour out bowls of judgment. But wrestling someone?