Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year B, RCL)

The Korean concept of hwa-yang-yeon-hwa has helped me embody the theologian’s idea of the beata vita.

The bishop of Hippo isn’t just for JD Vance and Mike Johnson—and Bible studies aren’t just for evangelicals.

Witness is an act of trust in a God who sends us to see and tell of all the things God is doing.

Judgment doesn’t have to be bad news.

Liberal Anglicans and Methodists often face a tension between LGBTQ inclusion and anti-colonialism. But we don’t have to choose.

Fruitful ministry becomes sustainable when it is shared, person to person and generation to generation.

In biblical Greek, the word we translate as “abide” is active rather than passive.

Some people can tell where wine or coffee is from just by tasting it.

The vine branch doesn’t put “make grapes” on its to-do list. It just makes them.

Sometimes it seems that the vine grower has prepared the vineyard and gone off to a remote island where things are warmer and nicer.

We are divided. We do not abide each other well.

In our current crisis, fear is both cause and consequence.