17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, RCL)

The dams on the Klamath River are coming down. Their removal reflects a very different theology than their construction.

How could Jesus assume that all those who heard him preach would never treat their children in such a way?

If Hosea is a factual account, it’s horrific. If it’s an allegory, it’s still horrific.

To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.

Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”

Not just suffering

In Paul's letters, the command to walk is moral exhortation.

What if, when praying for our daily bread, we had real food in mind?

Prayer is ministry, and ministry is prayer.

Both Elijah and Peter face a stark reality: fear.

If anyone can wax poetic about the power of a clean slate, it's Paul. In his mystical meanderings on the human body's relationship to the body of Christ, he doesn't ground his hope in the things that humans do (or don't do) in response to tradition, social pressure, or threats. He grounds it in the inclusive finality of Jesus Christ himself.

What is the point of prayer? The question is writ large in the texts from both the Hebrew scripture and the Gospel for this Sunday. The terrain is fraught with places to trip and fall.

The biological concept of convergence lends credence to a Christian view of providence—and fits with a scriptural account of a story-shaped world.

Ellen Davis is full of surprises. Some are delightful, others raise questions for further study, and still others throw up stumbling blocks.

No one from the outside can fully grasp the inner workings of any marriage. Even those inside sometimes find themselves lonely and strangers.

To say "earth to earth" is a good thing, we have to believe it's really going to happen.

There are many people with whom I have not had an affair. Billions. There is also one man in particular.

The faculty heard about a large influx of Saudi students on campus. I didn't expect to find them all in my world religions class.