19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

What does it look like to be angry without sinning?

We need to wrestle with the meaning of Jesus’ flesh as bread, bread we are to consume.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Wind.”

Psalm 130 fits so many ways.

This psalm is hard to take.

Hip-hop’s origins go back farther than the 1970s.

David, Absalom, and the dangers of “hanging between heaven and earth”

Biblical scholar Mari Joerstad and indigenous activist Nick Estes challenge our human-centered worldview.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “dirt.”

It’s been quite a week for the prophet of God.

People must have gasped when Jesus opened his mouth and said 'I am.'

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied a meal at a Virginia restaurant. I wonder who's welcome at our table.

“I look on my faith as a liberation.”

How is it that the poems of a 17th-century aristocrat still resonate with us?

Robert Barron’s grasp of the complex development of David’s character in 2 Samuel is unsurpassed. And his references to history and literature are more than adornment.

In my Bible, this week's reading from Ephesians bears the title, "Rules for the New Life." The text reads like a laundry list of more or less unrelated instructions. Put away falsehood. Speak the truth, be angry but don't sin, and do not make room for the devil. Give up stealing and work honestly. Speak only what is useful for building up; do not grieve the Holy Spirit. Put away bitterness, anger, slander, and malice.

We are to work honestly, work with our hands, and work so that we can share with those in need.

Social microhistories can capture big ideas. I’d like to write one on pickles, which are as fundamental to civilization as anything in Chesterton’s pockets.

Offering the elements to the unbaptized can be seen as a development and not a revolution, but it is a significant change. Is it a good one?

What makes kindness a distinctive mark of the new creation?