All Saints Day (Year B, RCL)

Experience, reading, and the daily rounds of farm work taught Wendell that scripture is correct: Every creature and every inch of earth is made and approved by God.

The Christian nationalist pastor proposes that women are responsible for preventing men from committing sexual violence—by being subservient to them.

The ultrarich are planning their exit from a dying planet. Christian apocalyptic theology has a different ending in mind.

The most religious people are also statistically the most likely to place their faith in artificial life support. Why?

Dry bones don’t resurrect themselves.

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.

Sometimes we glimpse magnificence in common occurrences. Science stumbles into poetry. We get a taste of singularity.

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Move over, pink flamingos. For me, the cross of Christ is as campy as it gets.

Jesus’ question to Martha extends to all believers.

God swallowing up death indicates the ultimate defeat of sorrow and chaos.

The myth that alternative gospels were suppressed by empire and only recently rediscovered is too good to be true.

“If John’s christological confessor is also the first person the risen Jesus appears to,” says biblical scholar Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, “that could make her a competitor to Peter’s authority.”

When our church offered Rosa sanctuary, our ordinary habits became a politics of hospitality.

Shakeshafte and Other Plays explores the messiness of language and meaning.