• Removing the greatest obstacle to change

    Removing the greatest obstacle to change

    It’s not just change. It’s about shifting the burden of responsibility and its the ones in power who make the call.

  • Being There

    Being There

    Our blindness to the presence of God is normal. But it is also an obstacle to our work of building the kin-dom.

  • An Economics of Suffering

    An Economics of Suffering

    William Dwight Porter Bliss, Richard Theodore Ely, the pope, and Jesus give us a common vision for a more moral world. William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard Theodore ElyLuke 16:19–31 I love this teaching from Jesus because it describes the problem so well. The problem being our general confusion about our place in the story.…

  • Facing the truth

    Facing the truth

    Jesus challenges the Temple leaders to change. And we’re being invite to do the same. Even in the midst of a pandemic.

  • Consequential

    Consequential

    Dealing with a figure like Remigius can be its own challenge. In part because we confuse consequential for good.

  • No Debate

    No Debate

    This teaching isn’t about word vs. action. It’s about a relationship with God that may begin in one spot, but ends in trust.

  • The Best in Christian Witness

    The Best in Christian Witness

    The ministry of service, justice, and love has long been far less important to us than power, security and certainty.

  • Like Sheep Without a Shepherd

    Like Sheep Without a Shepherd

    Jesus’s images often have us looking in the opposite direction. Usually because we’re looking the wrong way.