30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

In six short verses, Jeremiah makes sermon illustrations of three different exile stories.

You can live a long time off a vision like the transfiguration. But there is much else in this world we must look at, from which we dare not avert our eyes.

The child staggering out of a bomb-blasted city does not need to find her home in God. She needs a physical home.

Dreams inhabit untamed psychological, emotional, and spiritual terrain.

There is a tearing at the social fabric when Bartimaeus cries to Jesus.

Job passively endures a lot of trauma before he finally speaks directly to God about it. That’s the turning point.

The psalms of ascent press hard against the norms of our bootstrap culture.

Erin Raffety’s ethnographic study calls churches to repentance.

Sometimes I picture its author looking down at us and shaking his head.

They put us in touch with essential things that we know to be dear or wrong.

This psalm is hard to take.

More than a miracle story, this is a story of a call.

Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism

The crowd's proximity to Jesus does not make them attentive to his priorities.

Why does the crowd demand that Bartimaeus be silent?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied a meal at a Virginia restaurant. I wonder who's welcome at our table.

Unabated cultural frivolity rules our churches, too.