Luke

Luke's text for Reign of Christ Sunday is a searing critique of leaders who are powerful but not vulnerable.

Luke's text for Reign of Christ Sunday is a searing critique of leaders who are powerful but not vulnerable.

Luke's text for Reign of Christ Sunday is a searing critique of leaders who are powerful but not vulnerable.

What does Mr. Publican do once he arrives at home?

I'd left the practice of testimony in my childhood church. Then I learned why Luke suggests it when your world is falling apart.

A retired colonel taught me about the courage it takes to love our enemies.

A retired colonel taught me about the courage it takes to love our enemies.

Zacchaeus's daily life as a tax collector was reduced to the symptoms of his society's sickness.

Nations as well as individuals need to look in the moral mirror in order to stop deceiving ourselves.

I relate to physical sickness more easily than mental illness. So does our culture.

Maybe the parable of the persistent widow isn't about God. Maybe it's about us.

I should have known better. Grandma had nine decades under her belt of doing things her way.

I move a lot. So did Jesus and the disciples.

When I read this week's Gospel, I remember two lepers I saw at a train station in India—how alone they were.

The Gospels show Jesus as prophet, teacher, and miracle worker. But most intriguingly, they depict him as a storyteller--one who could not only draw a crowd but keep it riveted.

I'm more than a bit smitten with the image of rekindling the gift of God within us.

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.

Luke's story of the rich man and Lazarus is full of vivid details. Which makes you cringe the most?