Sunday’s Coming

This familiar text takes on new dimensions when read in tandem with this week’s epistle and gospel texts.

The idea that God loves us seems so simple.

Maybe Easter is about not theory but practice.

Jesus’ last week in Jerusalem is full of confrontation.

This is a fearful time, especially for those who are being targeted by some of the currents of our cultural wars.

What has always interested me about the John 3:16 signs is the singular focus.

Churches often live in an uneasy relationship with their property.

Lament psalms typically move to trust at some point, but reading only those verses feels strange in Lent.

Not just Advent

Praying in community is often more powerful than praying “in secret.”

Sometimes it seems like the believers are the ones for whom the gospel is veiled.

We are all like Paul, boasting to the Corinthian church about being all things to all people.

Food offered to idols is not really a live issue for us, but social media usage is.

There’s something that’s even stranger than being a prophet.

Is it possible to read Paul as an early exponent of a wellness ethic for sexuality?

And why would anyone baptize the dead?

Do they later say to their friends, “How could we not have known?”

The hymns of Mary, Zechariah, and Simeon reflect the worship material of early Christians.

Mary and Joseph must have felt dejected and homeless.

The annunciation is a story about a woman bearing forth the better things from the baser.