Third Sunday in Lent (Year 3, NL)

Sometimes in ministry you lose precious things.

What comes in between being lost and being found?

Sometimes anger is a window into what needs to be mended and healed.

It’s hard to believe in an enchanted world.

It's complicated to lose things.

Not everything that’s lost can be found.

“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”

What if we are the Pharisees?

I’ve stopped trying to climb over it or knock it down. Now I just sit there.

What scripture means is not reducible to what it once meant.

A counting book that retells Jesus’ parables and a Reformation-themed alphabet book are among my favorite new children’s books. 

Two refreshing new books place the storyteller within the story he tells.

I have no idea what it would mean to be a shepherd, let alone someone who would abandon 99 sheep to go looking for a single stray.

James calls Abraham a “friend of God.” In this week’s reading from Exodus, Moses presumes upon a similar divine friendship to offer God advice.

I often worry that churches are too full of people who are not disappointments.