10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

It is time for men to embrace our capacity to care for people without applause.

In Isaiah, every promise of newness is an indictment of present brokenness.

Kings fall, tyrants pass, and hope endures in the prophets’ vision of God’s story.

Learning to trust in God requires an act of will.

Samuel is a good leader, until he isn’t.

I heard a variation on the Eden story that offers a new look at Eve.

Psalm 130 fits so many ways.

How do I teach my children to care for an ailing world?

Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”

Name calling is the last resort of the weak.

Our possessive instinct goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden.

What happens when Samuel reads his people the fine print?

Four new books about biblical texts and their reception

Here in Oregon, the consequences of our actions are burning all around us.

The Bible gives no sense that the family is an end in itself.

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

Climate catastrophe, economic inequality, and the way we treat our dead

The composer sees his music as an interplay between suffering and consolation, loss and hope.