Trinity Sunday (Year C, RCL)

The psalmist is not alone in claiming that humans are only “a little lower than God.” Can it be any wonder, then, that our faith leaves a great deal of room to disagree about our power in creation?

For my money, John’s is the only Gospel in which Jesus seems really lonely.

Some questions won't go away. The creed says Jesus was crucified "for us," but what do those two little words mean?

Air travel—perhaps paradoxically—tutors us in patience, a practice in short supply in today's world.

Is John 1 a midrash on the creation story and the song of creative Wisdom? If so, its writer has infused it with profoundest joy.

I want to go from suffering to hope as quickly as possible.

Paul’s daunting promise to the Romans haunts me: “Suffering produces endurance,” he assures the Romans and us, “and endurance produces character and character produces hope.” Recently I stood in the pulpit of my church and looked over the top of a white, 32-inch-long casket at a young couple from my congregation. Their six-month-old son, who had been happy and healthy just days before, had died in his sleep. The unfathomable suffering of the family was shadowed by a church filled with mourners for whom the scene enacted their most dreaded fears.