Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year 4, NL)

She doesn’t even have a name. Surely she is a questionable character if she has no name.

Water dominated the imaginations of our ancestors in faith, whose stories often called for either a canteen or galoshes.

Given the environmental future we’re facing, we would do well to address it with resurrection hope.

Abundance is not always God’s modus operandi.

Rethinking the woman at the well

Others have given up on them, but not God.

Jesus in conversation with three women in the Gospels

Like a girl jumping double dutch, Jesus has perfect timing.

On the cross, Jesus needed actual water. No one gave him any.

Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.

From creation to Mary Magdalene, Barbara E. Reid offers convincing alternatives to sexist interpretations of scripture.

How do we wrap our minds around hunger?

No one from the outside can fully grasp the inner workings of any marriage. Even those inside sometimes find themselves lonely and strangers.

Jesus chooses a circumstance of division, then instigates community.

The runaway slave narratives compiled by Devon Carbado and Donald Weise are as moving as any story by Suzanne Collins or J.R.R. Tolkien.

When you pray at LA's cathedral, you are part of humanity past, future and in the inglorious, unromanticized present.