• Keeping Faith Today

    Keeping Faith Today

    This parable about persistence reveals that the point isn’t to always work hard. The point is that faith can demand it.

  • Persistence as an act of resistance

    Persistence as an act of resistance

    We often isolate the need to persist from the experience of oppression. But it is the demand for justice that fuels it.

  • Get a Colonoscopy

    Get a Colonoscopy

    A headline can be technically true and be wrong. And sometimes it isn’t even accurate to say it is technically true.

  • The In-Between

    The In-Between

    In healing ten people with leprosy in the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee, Jesus offers us a way to see life anew.

  • Writing about communication

    Writing about communication

    The challenge of communicating with others is that we all have our own expectations. And we act like they’re the same.

  • Why They Never Listen

    Why They Never Listen

    Episode 40 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Healing of the Ten (Proper 23C)

    Healing of the Ten (Proper 23C)

    In this evocative story from the midst of the borderlands, Jesus places himself as a border-crosser and boundary-breaker.

  • In the Borderlands

    In the Borderlands

    The borderlands are as much a character in the story this week as any of the people. What we make of that is essential.