Transfiguration of the Lord (Year 2, NL)

Economic ideology can strip a vocation bare. The danger is especially acute for clergy of color.

I understand why Mark’s editors added to his ending. Still, I wish they hadn’t.

You can live a long time off a vision like the transfiguration. But there is much else in this world we must look at, from which we dare not avert our eyes.

Lament psalms typically move to trust at some point, but reading only those verses feels strange in Lent.

What a roller coaster for the disciples: They are following the Messiah! And doing so will cost them everything.

What Peter, James, and John see on the mountain cannot be neatly packaged for resale.

Vida Dutton Scudder, an early 20th-century radical, points Christians to solidarity and martyrdom.

If God is our salvation and stronghold, why are we just as vulnerable as anyone else?

As my father was dying, I saw God’s radiant face more clearly.

Need words of confidence? Start with Psalm 27.

“If the gospel isn’t good news to the women in the passage, is it still good news?”

The cross we choose to bear reveals who we think Jesus is.

In this week’s readings, God’s covenant-making continues.

Peter has guts. He reproaches the very one he identifies as anointed.