Are we the gardener? Or the fig tree?
Scripture
Jesus comes to a level place to bring the kingdom of God to all those who are gathered.
Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine reminds us, was a Jew.
Prophecy is a job not for the comfortable but for the afflicted.
As if fishing for people sounds any easier.
Lent invites us to pay attention to our hunger.
An anti-Enlightenment ax to grind
Craig Carter's book makes good points—and undermines them with his use of polemic.
What’s up with Luke’s assertive Jesus?
Often our spiritual practices are one more way we refuse to see that all is grace.
As a homiletics professor, I would be inclined to give Jesus a passing grade, and not just because he is Jesus.
Facebook tells me I have 633 friends. Sirach tells me how few of those are faithful friends.
Jesus’ transfiguration should have implications for how its witnesses will live.
