Week 1 (Year 4, NL)
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Should we avoid liturgical language of light and dark?
While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.
Earth’s self-care
The blue-and-green-marbled planet is trying her best to restore stability.
Parenting on a planet in pain
How do I teach my children to care for an ailing world?
December 24/25, Nativity (Isaiah 52:7-10; John 1:1-14)
What is the story within the story that we need to hear anew?
October 3, Ordinary 27B (Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12)
Israel’s claim that all people are created in God’s image is strikingly egalitarian.
The audacity to preach the gospel
Will Willimon tells preachers to put aside sentimentality.
God became flesh, but he never had breast cancer
I was diagnosed just after Christmas. It changed my perspective on the incarnation.
December 24/25, Nativity (Isaiah 9:2-7; John 1:1-14)
The prophetic power of a candle in the window
The gift of nurturing small things during isolation
What deep desire do my sourdough starter and jade clippings represent?
Wondering the Trinity (Genesis 1:1-2:4a)
Let’s not pretend that God hid secret Jesus messages in the Hebrew Bible like Easter eggs.
by Greg Carey
June 7, Trinity Sunday (Genesis 1:1–2:4a; Psalm 8; Matthew 28:16–20)
When we read scripture backward
by Greg Carey
David Bentley Hart’s polemic against the alleged doctrine of eternal hell
Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.