27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

Equity requires people with power giving some of it up. What if we applied this principle to young adult ministry?

Jesus’ blessing of the children and re-centering them in the midst of the community serves as a sort of Pride parable.

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

The primary biblical text that addresses human suffering is a comedic folktale. How are we meant to process this?

I heard a variation on the Eden story that offers a new look at Eve.

In Psalm 8, humankind is crowned in glory and honor, loved and valued.

Trusting in God’s transcendence means acknowledging God’s otherness.

Throughout scripture, human bodies are not an obstacle to righteousness; they are its location.

What if we did asystematic theology?

Sometimes I picture its author looking down at us and shaking his head.

It is as if every person who asks why bad things happen to good people takes a potsherd and starts scraping.

Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism

Israel’s claim that all people are created in God’s image is strikingly egalitarian.

When we read scripture backward

At the heart of each lesson is storytelling and wondering.

My son’s death did not evoke in me an interest in the problem of suffering.

Is it man or humanity? Ark or chest?

Our behavior doesn’t change the claim Jesus makes on us.