Sunday’s Coming

When the bottom drops out of our world, I think most of us find ourselves preferring the old status quo.

We can’t reconcile the senseless mercy of Jesus with an insistence that life is fair.

A spring of living water is not easily controlled.

If Nicodemus wants to be a “teacher of Israel,” he needs to let go of his need to have all the answers—and he must be willing to learn.

We each have to face mortality alone—but also together.

While there is much in the Fall story that might be healing, its primary legacy has been . . . well, “hurtful” seems far too weak a word.

What is Jesus’ vocation among us in the time of No Kings?

Paul is very interested in the sense of scent.

God’s son wouldn’t be exposed to the heinous death on a cross; he would escape it by using a power given by God.

We can’t give up on the kingdom of God.

Again and again, Jesus sees people as they are.

Jesus’ baptism didn’t end with him.

Maybe we ask too much of ourselves—and too little of God—if we expect to produce light.

In Spanish-language Bibles, there’s no consensus as to how to translate Logos.

When the holy innocents text makes reference to Rachel, it seems worth remembering her story.

It was an ordinary, everyday name, one that dozens of other boys in Nazareth shared.

The Christmas story is scandalous because of its specificity.

“Make firm the feeble knees,” the prophet calls.

A magnificent tree is reduced to a stump. But it’s still alive.

Paul has some quite specific recommendations about our preparedness for the day of salvation.