All Saints Day (Year B, RCL)

Jesus acts in response to real human suffering and actual human tears.

What does it mean that Jesus weeps, when he knows Lazarus will be raised from the dead?

We embrace uninitiated visitors, rowdy children, and blue jeans. Why not tears?

Do we really want God to live with us in a poisoned and degraded world?

Romans 8:6–11; John 11:1–45

My state has the same number of churches as prisoners. This fact haunts me.

The Dakota Access pipeline poses a threat to indigenous people. Their resistance poses tough questions for all of us.

John of Patmos presents readers of Revelation with fantastical visions of what life could be, just as Dickens does to Scrooge.

After the anointing at Bethany, Judas asks why the fragrance wasn't sold and the money given to charity. A more apt question might be why Mary didn't use it on her brother Lazarus, dead just a few days before.

I was a little girl, sitting near the front row of the church. My legs could not touch the floor, and I had to hold my hands laced in my lap so that I could remain still. I stared at the coffin before me.

When I read John 11 and heard Jesus thundering, “Unbind him and let him go!" I realized I had not forgiven my father.

Christians didn’t baptize Aldo Leopold’s land ethic after the fact. They got there years before his work.

I know what Jesus is doing in this story; I have three small children. He's dawdling.

I want the kingdom of God to be civilized. If possible I'd like to be able to keep sleeping in my own bed.

These days, we need a strong current of theological explication of Christian eschatology. Richard Middleton has stepped forward—and his book doesn't even mention zombies.