Second Sunday after Christmas (Year 1, NL)

The glorious and impressive features are only half of the story.

Theology is not popularly understood to be a landscape where dreams are welcome.

It’s all too much like a fairy tale.

Epiphany is the ultimate bad-guy story.

Epiphanies come to us in all shapes and sizes.

Grief is like a lead-weighted blanket that can never be fully lifted.

Genealogies suggest a beautiful inevitability even amid political impossibility.

Matthew connects Jesus to the overarching narrative of the Jewish people—as well as to the smaller story of Matthew’s immediate community.

This story sounds like a video game.

The wise men remind us that stargazing always involves politics.