16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, RCL)

Does he really need to add the part about Mary’s choice being better?

God’s rage will not be held at bay.

“If John’s christological confessor is also the first person the risen Jesus appears to,” says biblical scholar Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, “that could make her a competitor to Peter’s authority.”

The world is overwhelming, and we need nourishment.

I wonder whether Martha could feel cared for by Jesus.

There’s just one oak left at Mamre.

To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.

Sarah wasn’t the first member of her household to laugh at God.

Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.

Jesus has a zeal against the human willingness to turn wealth into an idol.

Jesus is talking to two different audiences.

Let me cut to the chase, brothers and sisters. Is this what you think living in Christ looks like?

This is a story some of us need to hear in a new way.

This is one of those stories that provokes howls of rage.

They use the conventions of Jewish resistance poetry to challenge Roman occupation.