22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, RCL)

As I pressed my sermon’s pages across the book’s valley, I couldn’t keep them from sliding into the groove.

Jeremiah’s message for Judah cuts deeper than our petty loyalties.

Jesus is clear: Hosts should invite only those who cannot reciprocate.

What are we going to do? We have some options.

For Jesus, the inverse of scarcity isn’t abundance—it’s accumulation.

Erin Raffety’s ethnographic study calls churches to repentance.

One form of ancient instruction was paraenesis, which lists various rules without a clear outline or progression of thought.

While he has everyone’s attention, Jesus challenges the conventional dinner seating practices.

Amy Kenny’s call for disability justice leads with righteous anger but offers grace.

Kara Slade’s scathing yet incisive volume abounds with examples of modern hubris.

Putting flesh on the bones of justice

Proverbs warns us against the culture of self-aggrandizement.

And that conversation’s inevitable limits

Jesus and Maimonides are drinking from the same well: the book of Proverbs.

The prescription for the persistent malady of God’s people

We see. We taste. We touch. We smell. We hear. To be human is to move through time and space guided by our senses. Reading this passage from Luke, I think about the sensory onslaught that defines my existence.