Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year C, RCL)

People often respond not to the person in front of them but to reverberations from the past.

Witness is an act of trust in a God who sends us to see and tell of all the things God is doing.

Kings fall, tyrants pass, and hope endures in the prophets’ vision of God’s story.

Enemies are quite common in the Psalms, sometimes with deadly intent.

Sensing danger does not alone a prophet make.

After the election, I was worried about people being silenced. So I joined a choir.

It is not just his words that make Jeremiah a prophet. It is his willingness to share in the judgment.

Jesus didn’t come to make us feel good.

“Anyone who thinks he knows the orthodox consensus can always be shown to be wrong,” says David Bentley Hart.

If Jeremiah sounds a bit paranoid, it is because everybody really is against him.

Jesus refuses at every turn to do something important, the things his neighbors thought he should do when he grew up.

If Jesus is with the other guy, how can he be with us?

It is the nature of a creature—or toy, or movie franchise—to outgrow its context and move on.

Penny embodies the kind of love that holds onto hope amid suffering, redemption amid pain, and forgiveness amid hurt.

What’s up with Luke’s assertive Jesus?

There’s a lot of urgency in that single word today.

How would Norman Rockwell have painted Jesus' homecoming to Nazareth?

Self-realization is possible only in relation to a reality beyond the self.