• 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.

  • Making us squirm

    Making us squirm

    In a parable about laborers in the vineyard, Jesus shows us that to see the Kingdom, we have to look differently.