Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year C, RCL)

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Turns out there are a lot of them.

Jesus’ new commandment isn’t about who we should love. It’s about how.

No one and nothing escapes Psalm 148’s exhortation.

If our faith cannot help us escape tribulations, then what should we do when we face them?

God swallowing up death indicates the ultimate defeat of sorrow and chaos.

Simeon and Anna echo the worship material of ancient Israel.

When our church offered Rosa sanctuary, our ordinary habits became a politics of hospitality.

People sometimes regress to childlike behavior in stressful situations.

Peter is hardly the first person to challenge the status quo because of something God told him in a dream.

It often works pretty well for us.

God called all of them good. Humans are rapidly destroying them.

The psalmist puts out a clarion call.

Here we find Jesus speaking in language both mystical and matter of fact.