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Just a Little Bit Better — on the low bar of faith
In describing the path before them, Jesus offers metaphors of salt and light to inspire us, but the least we can do is not be total jerks.
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More Than Salt and Light — for Epiphany 5A
As Jesus continues preaching the sermon on the mount, modern readers need to remember the wider context of our greater calling.
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Salt — messy metaphor in an age of heart disease
When Jesus compares his followers to salt, it offers a complex note to the modern understanding of nutrition, health, life, how to be.
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Blessing is an Invitation to Build Something Better
In the Beatitudes, we find ourselves pushing against our own priorities, against the priorities the world pushes upon us, to divide us, despise us.
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For Love, For God — for Epiphany 4A
Jesus opens the sermon on the mount with an evocative recasting of the nature of humanity’s relationship to God, and ultimately, to one another.
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Blessed when we don’t want to be
The first challenge in Jesus’s vision of blessing is it counters the common one. The second is that the powerful like things the way they are.
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Transcendent, Beautiful — the call to follow Jesus
Jesus calls disciples with metaphor; an invitation that draws them into something beyond themselves, their history, and even their understanding.
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“Attack” is a strange word for protest
When the state makes enemies of protestors, it uses the language of violence as cover to use violence against them, to disempower them.
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