Scripture
Learning what happiness is (and isn’t) from my daughter with Down syndrome
Penny embodies the kind of love that holds onto hope amid suffering, redemption amid pain, and forgiveness amid hurt.
April 18, Maundy Thursday (John 13:1-17, 31b-35)
Foot washing expresses John’s vision of communion.
Jesus mocks Herod (Luke 13:31-35)
When we hear Jesus retort, “Tell that fox….,” we have to keep in mind the litany of intersections between Jesus, his followers, and the Herodian dynasty.
The temptation and other stories of desperation (Luke 4:1-13)
Jesus enacts the very things we humans have been unable to enact on our own.
Seeing and knowing (Luke 9:28-43a)
The thing Peter needs is right there in front of him.
Hopes of the dying (1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50; Luke 6:27-38)
Death is inevitable for the living. It’s also a requisite for that which is yet to live.
Leveled out (Luke 6:17-26)
Jesus comes to a level place to bring the kingdom of God to all those who are gathered.
Six traits of a pluralist Christian vision of human flourishing
Can Christianity make universal claims without being exclusivist?
A Jesus who can be hard to like (Luke 4:21-30)
What’s up with Luke’s assertive Jesus?
Grading Jesus’ first sermon (Luke 4:14-21)
As a homiletics professor, I would be inclined to give Jesus a passing grade, and not just because he is Jesus.
A strange first clue (John 2:1-11)
I think the disciples were a bit like detectives.
Water and fire (Psalm 29; Isaiah 43:1-7; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22)
John the Baptist's world and ours