Scripture
June 30, Ordinary 13C (Luke 9:51-62; 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21)
Maybe Jesus’ words aren’t about me, my family, or my sacrifices. Maybe they’re about him.
Communion with Christ—and others (John 17:20-26)
“Being in Jesus” is John’s theological language to describe a state of communion essential for our faith.
Seeing myself in the story of the Feast of the Visitation
I've long identified with Mary's fire. Now I want to learn from Elizabeth.
June 23, Ordinary 12C (Luke 8:26-39)
Sometimes the terror we know is more tolerable than the peace we can’t imagine.
Ethical hacks for managing our adolescent technologies
Kate Ott looks at the moral implications of digital language.
Praise among all the people (Psalm 67)
The psalmist calls for something that is hard for us to imagine.
Jesus the (Second Temple-era) Jew
“If we don’t understand the Judaism of Jesus’ time, how can we understand him and his message?”
Immigration and the biblical law of the stranger
In Torah, the stranger appears as a guest to be welcomed, not a problem to be solved.
June 16, Trinity C (John 16:12-15)
To know any truth about God, we must be drawn into the life of the Trinity. But how?
Abraham broke the law, crossing borders and trafficking his wife
Why do we forgive him so much more easily than migrants today?
The extinction of whales, birds, and other creatures that once praised God
God called all of them good. Humans are rapidly destroying them.
June 9, Pentecost C (John 14:8-17, 25-27)
Poor Philip just needs a little more from God. I know how he feels.
June 2, Easter 7C (John 17:20-26)
Jesus wants us all around the table. That can be really, really hard.
The great multitude (Revelation 7:9-17)
As theophanies go, this one is oddly comforting.
The essential challenge of anti-Judaism in the Bible
Do antisemitic appeals to the Bible always constitute an abuse of scripture? Would that it were so simple.
May 30, Ascension (Luke 24:44-53)
It can be excruciating to long for something just out of reach.