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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.
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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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“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.