• This family comes first

    This family comes first

    We struggle with talking about family because we have conflicting ideas about the idea, and more importantly, how we embody it.

  • A Bigger Family—for Proper 5B

    A Bigger Family—for Proper 5B

    We focus this week on the way Jesus redefines family. And why this whole story gives us trouble in a world devoted to the nuclear family unit.

  • Family—expanding the network

    Family—expanding the network

    The word family has so much to it: positive and negative. But the call to expand our sense of family is central to our life in faith.

  • Between Proper 4 + 5 (Year B)

    Between Proper 4 + 5 (Year B)

    This week, we skip over an important piece of the story—that the threat the crowds have on Jesus’s ministry—and the calling of the apostles.

  • Being Alive

    Being Alive

    We know Sabbath as the day we’re supposed to take off from work. But the expectation is way more important than a day off.

  • Living in the third impossibility

    Living in the third impossibility

    As the current form of artificial intelligence grows, we are experiencing a dramatic transformation in how we live.

  • Getting used to it

    Getting used to it

    Episode 80 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Sabbath is for life

    Sabbath is for life

    The religious leaders struggled to see what Jesus was getting at with his teaching on the Sabbath. Well, honestly, so do we.