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In Secret — the internal conflict of an open faith
Jesus’s teaching on secrecy and openness is complex. A more fundamental truth is needed for making sense of it: honesty.
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The Tempting Away From God — for Lent 1A
The temptation in the wilderness isn’t a mere trick or a promise of true power, but a false invitation to abandon the very love of God.
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Temptation and the Need for Discipline
We have a tortured view of discipline in the United States. One that is shamefully unChristian. But, like us, it can be changed.
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Forgetting to Listen — for Epiphany LastA
In the Transfiguration, the very voice of God tells them to listen to Jesus — at the very time when they aren’t and will not out of fear and hubris.
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Transfigure — where seeing meets believing
To deal with the transfiguration of Jesus, we must deal with the limitations of our vision, of our sense of real, of the world itself.
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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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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.