15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

So I took a new name—as many characters in the Bible do.

“Jesus was preaching to people who were in the middle of the worst farming and fishing crisis yet.”

This passage from Paul is one that has been used to inflict pain upon LGBTQ people.

What if all the energy we spent on taming the flesh were channeled toward loving the world?

Biblical scholar Mari Joerstad and indigenous activist Nick Estes challenge our human-centered worldview.

Enemies are real. They are also closer to us than we may care to imagine.

If it were easy, we would have it all figured out already.

The sower just seems to hope that the seeds will find the right kind of soil, while doing little to ensure that is the case.

Honestly, it seems like our flesh has a massive design flaw.

Romans 8:6–11; John 11:1–45

The Totentatz window was created soon after the Shoah but with no reference to the city's murdered Jews. Two of them were my grandparents.

Theology and advertising share the same root.

Christians didn’t baptize Aldo Leopold’s land ethic after the fact. They got there years before his work.

I have come to realize how mysterious a thing a seed is.