29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, RCL)

The God of Moses is both intimate and mysterious, known and unknowable.

I take seriously the absence of a denarius in Jesus’ own hand.

Surely God isn’t a narcissist who demands our attention.

The stark liturgical space that Harvard Episcopal chaplain Rita Powell envisioned before COVID is now a reality.

The Herodians' topic of choice could have been plucked from the moderator's cue cards in a presidential debate.

Stephen Fowl’s fresh approach to the study of idolatry

Anya saw the world in colors.

We want to know God, but we also want to be known.

It's important to note what Jesus does not say about the Roman coin.

Belief in the incarnation places suffering bodies within the realm of Christian responsibility.

My mother died on the winter solstice shortly after her 50th birthday. So I have spent a lot of time thinking about darkness and the return of the light.

As I read Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark, I wondered if I had fallen prey to the dualistic paradigm she finds so troubling.

It often feels like a rhetorical game, this question of what belongs to God.

God loves the creation. In response the creation sings praise and adoration to God.

Like millions of others, I was a devoted Dave Brubeck fan—ever since I first heard his music in the 1950s.

Darkness does not come from a different place than light; it is not presided over by a different God.