Third Sunday in Lent (Year 1, NL)

Erin Raffety’s ethnographic study calls churches to repentance.

If we take the doctrine seriously, then we dare not draw the circle of salvation along religious lines. Or any lines at all.

The king doesn't want just anyone at the wedding banquet.

The parable of the wedding banquet is a horror story.

There’s nothing subtle about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Marxist critique of life in postcolonial Kenya.

"Why you even invite us to any of this," asked Richard, "if you’re just gonna humiliate us and throw us out?"

The hyperbole, violence, and abrupt scene changes in Matthew’s parable of the wedding feast have driven most interpreters to treat the story allegorically—thereby turning it from a dangerous puzzle to a reassuring message in code.

We might Bible-study our way through most of this difficult parable, but what do we do with the guest who is pulled in off the streets and then kicked out?

When early Christians saw the word robe, they thought of one thing only.

There have always been those who reject the gifts they’re offered.

If you are ever invited to a gala event where a constitutional monarch is present, you will be told to wear a dark suit or a formal dress—no pants suits for women, no leisure suits for men. Apparently the poor guy in the parable of the wedding banquet didn’t read the small print on his invitation.