31st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, RCL)
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Seeing with clarity
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.
Calling Zacchaeus to be Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10)
Jesus is present in the circumstances in which we already find ourselves.
by Mary Barnett
November 2, Ordinary 31C (Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4)
We are one body, even as the world comes apart.
Steadfast, resilient, and increasingly happy (2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12)
There’s a hard truth about existence in 2 Thessalonians 1 that social science bears out.
October 30, Ordinary 31C (Luke 19:1–10)
You want to see and be seen by Jesus? Sinner, get ready!
The prophet’s palette (Isaiah 1:1, 10-20)
Why in the world would Isaiah use the image of snow as a sign of life with God?
by Paul Lutter
White supremacy’s wee little men
Zaccheus doesn't mind the indignity of scrambling up a tree, as long as he’s on top.
The book of Exodus includes a story about reparations for slavery
White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead.
How faith-based organizing helped end money bail in Illinois
The Bible provided some healthy agitation as we built coalitions to literally set the captives free.
by Charles Straight and Will Tanzman
Episode 67: Minding the Gap
On this week's Sunday Morning Matinee, Matt and Adam talk skateboarding, family, brokenness, and Bing Lau's incredible film Minding the Gap.
Waiting for vindication (Habakkuk 1:1–4; 2:1–4)
God's answer to Habakkuk? Wait.
Divine absence and the light inaccessible
God isn't just hidden. God hides. Why?
The courage to climb a tree (Luke 19:1–10)
Sometimes you have to struggle to a new height, away from the crowded ground level, to gain new vision.
October 30, 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time: Luke 19:1-10
Zacchaeus's daily life as a tax collector was reduced to the symptoms of his society's sickness.
Desolation and compassion
Our texts du jour include passages from Lamentations and Habakkuk that lament or anticipate the desolation of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. What’s it like when calamity or God’s judgment leaves the land, the houses or the people desolate?
In praise of snow
Snow can be tiresome, even deadly, but it can also be a sign of holiness and of hope.
by Rodney Clapp

