• The Temptation (Lent 1A)

    The Temptation (Lent 1A)

    Wrestling with the Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness, we can’t escape the story is about power and control.

  • Is He Tempted? (a reflection)

    Is He Tempted? (a reflection)

    The story of Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness is an invitation to examine our own relationship with power.

  • Public Prayer

    Public Prayer

    The gospel for Ash Wednesday invites us to rethink praying in public. And what it is we’re really going on about.

  • Temptation—what is within our power?

    Temptation—what is within our power?

    There’s a way we talk about temptation. We construct it as an all-consuming force we are powerless against. It isn’t.

  • Building a new creativity ecosystem

    Building a new creativity ecosystem

    We are overloaded with information. Too much coming in from too many places. It’s long past time we fix it.

  • Listening

    Listening

    The Transfiguration is not merely an event: it is a turning point in the work of teaching Jesus has been doing.

  • Between – the Transfiguration and the Temptation

    Between – the Transfiguration and the Temptation

    As we prepare for Lent, the lectionary will have us jump back to Matthew 4, for the temptation: which reverberates everywhere.

  • Between — The Big Sermon and the Transfiguration

    Between — The Big Sermon and the Transfiguration

    A lot happens before the Transfiguration. But something right before it colors how we might understand it.