12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

“If the gospel isn’t good news to the women in the passage, is it still good news?”

Amid pandemic and protest, will we turn to each other and live?

Romans 6:3 is strange. A lot of pastors have it memorized.

Jesus keeps saying, “Do not be afraid.” But there’s so much to be afraid of.

New books that are shaping conversations about the Old Testament

We’re too often blind to what God sees.

I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.

The Bible gives no sense that the family is an end in itself.

Since my son’s accident, everything I understand about hope has changed.

Baptism is about dying with Christ. Why don't more churches talk about this?

Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.

The evangelical group teaches farming, provides hospitality to newly arrived refugees, and watches the local salmon.

I'm authorized to open seals, drive the chariot of fire, and pour out bowls of judgment. But wrestling someone?

It's a beautiful Sunday morning, until the pastor breaks the mood.

We have value because we are creatures, like sparrows.