In our three-year lectionary cycle, most Hebrew Bible texts come up once at most. Isaiah 58 is assigned five times. We justice-minded Christians tend to find additional reasons to turn to it as well.
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Did Jesus tell us to pray for our enemies
If so, what did he mean?
In the dance with technology who leads
Jacques Ellul diagnosed the problem. Paul Patton and Robert Woods offer some solutions.
January 22 Epiphany 3A Psalm 27 1 4 9 Matthew 4 12 23
In June 2020, I was invited to give a virtual conference to youth from the United Methodist Church of Peru. At that time, the COVID pandemic was at its worst, and many people were dying worldwide. Like most of us, those who attended the conference were anxious, sad, afraid, and discouraged. Many of them had lost family members and members of their church community to the virus.
Finding our way
The mental maps we make tell us who we are and where we belong.
January 15 Epiphany 2A John 1 29 42
I had received three speeding tickets in one year. It was a personal record. I wasn’t proud. The State of Iowa, in its wisdom, said that I should take a defensive driving course. They insisted, really. If I didn’t, they would take my license away. Could I do my job if I couldn’t drive? Probably, but what would the congregation think? This was before online classes, so I toddled off to a Saturday morning class for a few weeks, to be instructed on the finer points of obeying the law.
Our living waters are struggling to breathe
River baptisms are becoming a casualty of polluted waters.
Why am I so drawn to these evangelical couple vloggers
In summer 2020, I was at home between my freshman and sophomore years of college, riding out the pandemic, when I decided to paint my childhood bedroom. Alone, sweating, bored, miserable, and quite literally watching paint dry, I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole.
Delores Williams s voice in the wilderness
At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.