Third Sunday of Advent (Year 4, NL)
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The Samaritan woman vs. our assumptions (John 4:5-42)
She doesn’t even have a name. Surely she is a questionable character if she has no name.
March 12, Lent 3A (Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; John 4:5-42)
Water dominated the imaginations of our ancestors in faith, whose stories often called for either a canteen or galoshes.
What if we treated all of creation—plants and stars, soil and rivers—as our kin?
Biblical scholar Mari Joerstad and indigenous activist Nick Estes challenge our human-centered worldview.
A barbershop births a church of drug users, ex-cons, and homeless folks
Others have given up on them, but not God.
A prophetic ministry of relationship
Jesus in conversation with three women in the Gospels
Convicted for taking water to thirsty people
The No More Deaths volunteers were imitating the logic of the incarnation.
Living water isn’t just a metaphor
On the cross, Jesus needed actual water. No one gave him any.
Women of the Bible say #MeToo
Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.
Reading the Bible as a feminist
From creation to Mary Magdalene, Barbara E. Reid offers convincing alternatives to sexist interpretations of scripture.
The hunger that no meal satisfies
Isaiah 55 gives voice to the longing we can't quite name.
August 6, Ordinary 18A (Isaiah 55:1-5; Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21; Matthew 14:13-21)
I can’t fathom a God who isn’t personal—and personally accountable.
Third Sunday in Lent: Isaiah 55:1-9; Luke 13:1-9
We don’t talk about idolatry much anymore, despite the caution against it in everything from the Ten Commandments to the New Testament epistles. This is ironic, because idolatry flourishes in our culture.