Scripture
Did Jesus really say that? (Luke 14:25-33)
Surely he didn't mean I have to give up my books.
September 29, Ordinary 26C (Luke 16:19–31; Amos 6:1a, 4–7)
Conversion narratives raise a question: Why does it take so much to get there?
Aiming high and falling low (Proverbs 25:6-7; Luke 14:1, 7-14)
Proverbs warns us against the culture of self-aggrandizement.
September 22, Ordinary 25C (Luke 16:1–13; Amos 8:4–7)
Jesus is talking to two different audiences.
September 15, Ordinary 24C (Luke 15:1-10)
Not everything that’s lost can be found.
Hearing the apostle Paul’s words in a hospital stroke unit
Struck down but not destroyed, perplexed but not forsaken
Changing together (Luke 12:49-56; Jeremiah 23:23-29)
What questions arise if we take Jesus' warning literally?
September 8, Ordinary 23C (Luke 14:25-33)
Jesus isn’t known for being on the winning side. His constant mantra is come and die.
The conversation about faith and sex that The Bachelorette sparked
And that conversation’s inevitable limits
September 1, Ordinary 22C (Proverbs 25:6-7; Luke 14:1, 7-14)
Jesus and Maimonides are drinking from the same well: the book of Proverbs.
Changed by something radically other (Luke 12:32-40)
Can we allow Jesus’ metaphors into our imagination?
From “raised with Christ” to “subject to your husbands” (Colossians 3:1-11)
How would the women of Colossae have responded to chapter 3?
August 25, Ordinary 21C (Isaiah 58:9b-14)
So much of human religiosity comes down to a hoax we perpetrate on God.