Reign of Christ (Year C, RCL)

Being baptized requires becoming vulnerable to at least one other person.

A Quaker colleague taught me how stillness exercises agency, how it acts upon worshipers.

If so, what did he mean?

While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.

In a blockbuster movie, this is when our hero would leap from the cross.

To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.

Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.

The kings in the Bible feel pretty familiar.

The unfaithful shepherd sniffs out and stirs up fear, fragmenting communities.

Let me cut to the chase, brothers and sisters. Is this what you think living in Christ looks like?

Christmas can’t come soon enough for Tom.

They use the conventions of Jewish resistance poetry to challenge Roman occupation.

Do we really want God to live with us in a poisoned and degraded world?

In the face of mob violence, a six-year-old responded with love.

We are God’s artifacts—beautiful, incomplete, and mysterious.

To sing of Jesus Christ in Paul's terms seems strange and grandiose and a bit out of touch with the lives of ordinary people right now.