31st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, RCL)

There’s a hard truth about existence in 2 Thessalonians 1 that social science bears out.

You want to see and be seen by Jesus? Sinner, get ready!

Why in the world would Isaiah use the image of snow as a sign of life with God?

Zaccheus doesn't mind the indignity of scrambling up a tree, as long as he’s on top.

White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead.

The Bible provided some healthy agitation as we built coalitions to literally set the captives free.

On this week's Sunday Morning Matinee, Matt and Adam talk skateboarding, family, brokenness, and Bing Lau's incredible film Minding the Gap.

God's answer to Habakkuk? Wait.

God isn't just hidden. God hides. Why?

Sometimes you have to struggle to a new height, away from the crowded ground level, to gain new vision.

Zacchaeus's daily life as a tax collector was reduced to the symptoms of his society's sickness.

Our texts du jour include passages from Lamentations and Habakkuk that lament or anticipate the desolation of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. What’s it like when calamity or God’s judgment leaves the land, the houses or the people desolate?

Snow can be tiresome, even deadly, but it can also be a sign of holiness and of hope.

The gospel reading for October 31 comes toward the end of what most Lucan scholars call Luke's travel narrative. It begins ten chapters earlier at 9:51, where Luke tells us, "When the days drew near for Jesus to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem."

One would expect to follow Jesus' progress on a map—but the coordinates make no geographical sense.