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Holy attachments
During the pandemic, I went six months without touching another human being. I felt starved.
Ashes together (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
Praying in community is often more powerful than praying “in secret.”
February 14, Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21)
How did my friend feel making a cross on my forehead, not knowing how long I’d be alive?
February 11, Transfiguration B (Mark 9:2–9)
What Peter, James, and John see on the mountain cannot be neatly packaged for resale.
The magi and their epiphany (Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12)
Do they later say to their friends, “How could we not have known?”
January 6, Epiphany (Matthew 2:1–12)
In welcoming the Magi into her home, Mary opens the door to the whole world.
A rich woman who took the Magnificat seriously
Vida Dutton Scudder, an early 20th-century radical, points Christians to solidarity and martyrdom.
The eerie call of John the Baptist
His followers realized there was no quick exit from the discomfort of his words.
The emotion standing in the way of peace
Anger can be both healthy and helpful. Rage offers only destruction.
The path to clarity (Matthew 23:1-12)
Is it possible to know what is real? Whom to believe?
Give to the one who asks of you
I’m on this man’s side, even though I didn’t give him any money. Right?
October 22, Ordinary 29A (Matthew 22:15–22)
I take seriously the absence of a denarius in Jesus’ own hand.
September 24, Ordinary 25A (Matthew 20:1–16)
Jesus doesn’t seem interested in our warped ways of keeping the ledger of life.
The brine of Christianity
I don’t go to church anymore, but the faith I was pickled in still shapes me.
The brine of Christianity
I don’t go to church anymore, but the faith I was pickled in still shapes me.
As a pastor, it’s my job to pay attention
In the Mennonite tradition, we are all priests. But I still have a particular role to play.