Mark 10

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

Equity requires people with power giving some of it up. What if we applied this principle to young adult ministry?

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.

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

Jesus moves in the same direction as other pilgrims but at a pace and purpose that is his own.

“Anyone who thinks he knows the orthodox consensus can always be shown to be wrong,” says David Bentley Hart.

For Jesus, the inverse of scarcity isn’t abundance—it’s accumulation.

Erin Raffety’s ethnographic study calls churches to repentance.

Throughout scripture, human bodies are not an obstacle to righteousness; they are its location.

Like the disciples, we’ve missed the point here.

More than a miracle story, this is a story of a call.

Her radical final words confounded me for years.

How one youth leader stopped being a chief counselor of fun and discovered something better.

Neither is religion.

At the heart of each lesson is storytelling and wondering.

The crowd's proximity to Jesus does not make them attentive to his priorities.

James and John don’t want power; they want a special level of intimacy with Jesus.

We are worthy, loved, and enough. But so is everyone else.

Our behavior doesn’t change the claim Jesus makes on us.