32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

So many stewardship sermons use the woman of Mark 12—lamentably—as an example of the kind of generosity to which we all should aspire.

Naomi is a climate refugee, displaced from her homeland by a natural disaster that results in widespread famine.

The psalms of ascent press hard against the norms of our bootstrap culture.

Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism

Scripture is filled with sexual violence. So, we learned, are our own lives.

This time of year, our inner landscapes can seem as bleak as the outer ones.

In his response to John, Jesus speaks of hope in the present tense.

Remembering the (anonymous) way of the cross

Here's to all the people who give their last coin.

Security and risk are nothing new. Today's biblical texts deal not with stocks and bonds exactly, but with living in the real circumstances of a difficult and uncertain world while also accepting the possibility of good, of help and support, comfort and security.

The widow surrenders to the inevitability of her own starvation. Elijah acknowledges this and doesn’t try to talk her out of it.

I remember seeing Helena, a widow, unfolding a $20 bill to put in the offering plate. I knew that her family was selling its possessions to pay the ransom for her only son, imprisoned by guerrillas.

Here is a woman about to die with her child who still manages to love her neighbor as herself.