Reign of Christ (Year C, RCL)

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

People often respond not to the person in front of them but to reverberations from the past.

Unlike many politicians, Jesus did what he said he would do.

The prophet Jeremiah knew about hard times.

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.