Nativity of the Lord

Our busyness at Christmas hides God's busyness for us—but Luke's Gospel reveals it.

One of the gifts of the lectionary is that a biblical text wears different vestments depending on when it shows up for Christian worship.

There are many ways we receive the gift of Jesus badly.

What do these words from Isaiah ben Amoz mean for us?

My first instinct is to meditate on Isaiah 9 in light of its historical situation, which is bound up with the geopolitics of the late 8^th century BCE.

God loves the creation. In response the creation sings praise and adoration to God.

Like millions of others, I was a devoted Dave Brubeck fan—ever since I first heard his music in the 1950s.

The Gideon Bible treats the Bible as comfort food. But a diet of the Bible consists of conflict and confrontation.

Several years ago I received from a parishioner a "Jesus Is the Reason for the Season" cookie tin. Every time I reached for a piece of Doris's divinity, I had to read that cheery-angry motto of Christian moralism.

Before his questioning of the doctrine of hell sparked such a (ahem) firestorm, Rob Bell wrote in Velvet Elvis a chapter about yokes.