We hope and pray that God will meet us, even if God feels absent to us.
Scripture
1 John says the love of God comes first. Oh. Right.
Divisions mark our society—and our churches. What could possibly bring us together?
Sometimes it seems that the vine grower has prepared the vineyard and gone off to a remote island where things are warmer and nicer.
John 3:16 is about crisis, but not the crisis of God brooding in heaven waiting on us to make a choice.
The synagogue at Dura, in present-day Syria, contained three murals recounting the history of Israel from the ancestral period through the exile and resettlement of the land.
A hired hand is all I’ve ever been, professionally speaking.
Jesus has gone underground. That's the setting of our Gospel reading this Pentecost.
