27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

At the heart of each lesson is storytelling and wondering.

My son’s death did not evoke in me an interest in the problem of suffering.

Is it man or humanity? Ark or chest?

Our behavior doesn’t change the claim Jesus makes on us.

Is there any good news in Jesus' teaching on divorce?

Struggling with whether to abandon my Korean name made me think about the queerness in all of our identities.

The Jesuit scientist questioned whether humans are descended from Adam. It got him exiled.

In Genesis, God separates the dry land from the sea. But God also makes marshes, estuaries, and coral reefs.

God’s response to Job is cold comfort when you have terminal cancer.

I mostly agree with Jeffrey Weiss about prayer. I think St. Paul would too.

Like Dmitri Karamazov, Robert Mapplethorpe knows that the beautiful is a battleground—and he's happy to play on the devil's side.

Did Jesus mean that all the things we mean by accomplishment, and maturity, and reason, and progress, are actually small niggling things that we must finally shuck and lay aside, in order to again be like children, spiritually open and emotionally naked and constantly liable to giggling?

When we are overwhelmed by our daily struggles, when we get weary because of the dehumanization that results from hatred and greed, Proverbs 8 and Psalm 8 remind us how God conceives of us as human beings crowned with glory and honor.

In John's prologue, the incarnate Word is the God of creative address.