• Repent—uncovering the hope in change

    Repent—uncovering the hope in change

    The words repentance and change are treated like concepts to hate or disparage rather than essential, beautiful, and hopeful.

  • Between Advent 2 + 3 (Year C)

    Between Advent 2 + 3 (Year C)

    Approaching a second gospel passage about John the Baptist, hold onto the context and what it reveals about his message.

  • Open to delight

    Open to delight

    The coming of John the Baptist invites us to not only hear his words, but considering the context, recognize how they are for us, too.

  • The improbable preaching of John the Baptist

    The improbable preaching of John the Baptist

    When John the Baptist appears in Luke, we are treated to the context, the excitement, and the vision of what is now happening.

  • The politics of the season—for Advent 2C

    The politics of the season—for Advent 2C

    When John the Baptist appears in this week’s gospel, he comes with an overtly political message—one that we can’t really avoid.

  • Prepare—the voice of one crying out in the wilderness

    Prepare—the voice of one crying out in the wilderness

    The voice of revolution, offered by John the Baptist, reminds us not just in the singularity of his voice, but of the need for us to change.

  • Between Advent 1 + 2 (Year C)

    Between Advent 1 + 2 (Year C)

    As we move into Advent 2, our focus shifts to John the Baptist, which puts us into the strange place of skipping ahead a bit.

  • A Christian New Year

    A Christian New Year

    This first Sunday in Advent, we explore Jesus’s apocalyptic vision and what it says about the way we work through our present.