Scripture
March 2, Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
Some years the message of Ash Wednesday feels more tender than others.
Approaching religious pluralism through the Bible’s other brothers
Tyler Mayfield offers a fresh look at Cain, Ishmael, and Esau.
February 27, Transfiguration B (Luke 9:28-36 [37-43a])
In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus—like Moses and Elijah—is a figure of departure.
February 20, Epiphany 7 (Luke 6:27-38)
It’s a terrible fact that we have so many opportunities to love our enemies.
February 13, Epiphany 6C (Luke 6:17–26)
Luke’s Beatitudes call us to live in the tension of a cross-shaped life.
February 6, Epiphany 5C (Luke 5:1–11)
The disciples focused on what they could control: the state of their nets.
January 30, Epiphany 4C (1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30)
If Jesus is with the other guy, how can he be with us?
January 23, Epiphany 3 (Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21)
The word of God is living and active; it meets us where we are.
The book of Exodus includes a story about reparations for slavery
White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead.
January 16, Epiphany 2C (John 2:1-11)
The wedding at Cana is a reminder that Jesus’ kingdom is a miraculous kingdom—a mystical kingdom.
In Cairo, I sat in on a scriptural reasoning group with Christians and Muslims
Moving beyond amicable consensus to productive discomfort
Sacred wrestling with the Bible’s “harsh passages”
That God would fight for Israel is meant to elicit horror.
January 9, Baptism C (Luke 3:15–17, 21–22)
When we resist the powers that oppress this world, we are baptized through fire.
January 6, Epiphany (Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12)
Theology is not popularly understood to be a landscape where dreams are welcome.
December 26, Christmas 1 (Colossians 3:12-17; Luke 2:41-52)
Why am I so skeptical about sitting and learning at the feet of others?
Imagining a new political economy with Miriam of Nazareth
Abortion is about real lives enmeshed in the realities of home and work and wages and debt.
December 24/25, Nativity (Isaiah 52:7-10; John 1:1-14)
What is the story within the story that we need to hear anew?
Don’t tell my Pentecostal mom, but I pray the Hail Mary
My Grandma Violet was the black sheep of our family. I think of her when I pray.