Category: Faith

The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.

  • The Chasms

    The Chasms

    In the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, we are given the chance to see, not what is fixed, but what can be changed.

  • Trapped—the way torment blinds us to reality

    Trapped—the way torment blinds us to reality

    The trouble with being trapped is that it almost doesn’t matter if you are. Feeling trapped can blind us to ways out.

  • Why money is dangerous

    Why money is dangerous

    The parable in Luke 16 is confounding. If we think Jesus is saying something different from what he normally says.

  • Faithful—doing right when everything seems wrong

    Faithful—doing right when everything seems wrong

    The challenge of doing “right” is not so much in knowing, but in dealing with the sense of many rights. And which is most “good.”

  • Sinners

    Sinners

    The Bible frequently uses the word “sinner”. We often have a hard time noticing that Jesus has a problem with the term.

  • Beyond the fair question

    Beyond the fair question

    Sometimes the story is about the money. Sometimes it is about more than that. Either way, it’s about money.

  • The Lord’s Prayer (Proper 12C)

    The Lord’s Prayer (Proper 12C)

    In this week’s gospel, the disciples ask Jesus how to pray. And he responds by giving them a prayer to pray.

  • Debt — the enemy of faith

    Debt — the enemy of faith

    Debt it is often treated as the neutral arbiter of balance. But it is the way we justify inequality, enslavement, and separation.