Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year 1, NL)

Sometimes we walk into a situation open only to our own expectations and judgments.

Historian Surekha Davies exposes humanity’s long-standing practice of turning difference into monstrosity.

Move over, pink flamingos. For me, the cross of Christ is as campy as it gets.

Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to the Romans.

The psalms of ascent press hard against the norms of our bootstrap culture.

It’s hard to do alone.

There is a difference between work-life balance and sabbath living.

Perhaps this verse has been lifted out of its context by design.

I fear we may reject the justification metaphor too quickly and understand it too shallowly.

Paul encourages his readers to trust an outcome they cannot yet see.

Do antisemitic appeals to the Bible always constitute an abuse of scripture? Would that it were so simple.

Wishes are about what we want. Hope is about what God wants.

Rest is often viewed as a privilege rather than a necessity.

If it's in the first verse of Romans 5, it must be important to Paul.

I would have been embarrassed, downright ashamed to be associated with gluttons, drunkards, and sinners.

Exodus 19:2–8a; Psalm 100; Romans 5:1–8; Matthew 9:35–10:8