John 9

We can’t reconcile the senseless mercy of Jesus with an insistence that life is fair.

Psalm 23 isn’t just a song of comfort and consolation. It’s also about heroism and the world set to rights.

While recovering from a hiking accident, I posed the same theological question to multiple AI spiritual counselors.

It’s hard to see the way God sees.

The light of the world illumines those who are open but is opaque to those who claim powerful position.

Amid pandemic and protest, will we turn to each other and live?

Keep going, says John.

Do antisemitic appeals to the Bible always constitute an abuse of scripture? Would that it were so simple.

I routinely saw patients who were racist, sexist, demanding, and cruel. They were also afraid, exhausted, in pain, and helpless.

Caring for the sick means keeping them in our risk pool.

It's a question I ask my children all the time.

The earthiness of Jesus' cure of the blind man in John 9 recalls all of the ways that God uses basic elements in creation and salvation.

John 9:1–41

In opioid country, churches get to know their recovery communities.

Seeing has fooled me into thinking I have a clear view of where the road leads.

It's a truism that Christianity lives and breathes as much (or more) through music as through preaching or teaching, to say nothing of dense theological texts--so Christian preachers and teachers should be on the lookout for ways to incorporate the great hymns of the tradition into our sermons, lessons and other theological work.