21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mardi Gras sounds more fun.

For Luke, sickness is the devil’s work, which Jesus came to combat.

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

Isaiah’s two challenges go hand in hand.

So much of human religiosity comes down to a hoax we perpetrate on God.

Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.

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

Jesus points out ways in which the line has already been dissolved.

The unnamed woman’s healing in this week’s Gospel reading is a story of expansion, revelation, vision widened by grace. There’s more to the story, however.

"Remember the sabbath" is a costly commandment. Our culture’s assault on it extends far beyond Sunday.

When I read this passage from Luke I immediately remembered an exegesis paper I once wrote after reading an article by a doctor about what disease the woman might have. He concluded that she has a certain kind of arthritis—the same kind I had been recently diagnosed with. This gave me a sense of immediate connection with the woman in the story.

Such personal identification is homiletically useful.

The LDS canon's four books carry equal weight of authority. All are read as historical witnesses to God's promise of salvation.

Fred Gaiser offers a sober, accessible review of the biblical materials pertinent to our thinking about healing.

The thing about serving as a prophet is that you are forever stuck between what God wants and what the people want.