Sunday’s Coming

When hope is dim, we need the assurance that God is with us.

No one and nothing escapes Psalm 148’s exhortation.

What if we imagined the innkeeper as good?

Mary’s first move is to set off to visit Elizabeth.

The Advent 3 readings present an awkward tension.

Paul challenges us to consider what really matters.

We are surrounded by wastelands. God promises new life.

Harriet Tubman’s visions seemed, to her, to be glimpses of glory.

Even as we seek practical solutions to our problems, we cannot afford to abandon the beliefs and spiritual practices that undergird us.

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.

Ruth offers a striking contrast to the chaos and moral ambiguity of the judges era.

Jesus’ question to Martha extends to all believers.

There is a tearing at the social fabric when Bartimaeus cries to Jesus.

Job experiences awe at God’s response, but not necessarily peace.

When the world is in peril and the rich are to blame, such preaching becomes essential.

Jesus’ blessing of the children and re-centering them in the midst of the community serves as a sort of Pride parable.

Jesus seems to have an aversion to the kind of us-and-them boundary setting of his disciples.

Poor disciples. They rarely miss an opportunity to make a mess.

When is a pastor obliged to speak about their own theological shifts? Or obliged not to?

In Mark 7, a Syrophoenician woman is apparently able to win one with him.